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Pêr Denez

Pierre Denis, known also as Pêr Denez (3 February 1921 – 30 July 2011), was a French linguist, lexicographer, scholar and writer.

Denis was born in Rennes. Thanks to his contributions in the form of novels, essays and linguistics, he contributed to the preservation of the written Breton language. He died in Romillé.

Publications

Fiction

  • Glas evel daoulagad c'hlas na oant ket ma re, Al Liamm 1979, translated in English by Ian Press: Blue Like Blue Eyes Which Were Not My Own, Mouladurioù Hor Yezh 1993,
  • Hiroc'h eo an amzer eget ar vuhez, Mouladurioù Hor Yezh, 1981
  • Evit an eil gwech, MHY, 1982
  • Eus un amzer 'zo bet, MHY, 1992
  • En tu all d'an douar ha d'an neñv, MHY, 1993
  • Kenavo ar c'hentañ er joaioù, MHY, 1994
  • An amzer a ra e dro 1995
  • Da Rouz An Noz, MHY, 1996

Poems

  • P'emañ ar mor o regel..., Skrid, 1001

Linguistics and language methodology

  • Kentelioù brezhoneg : eil derez, Al Liamm, 1971
  • Brezhoneg buan hag aes, Omnivox, 1972 (reprinted by Hor Yezh, 1997; English edition tr. and adapted by R. Delaporte, Cork University Press, 1977, 1980)
  • Étude structurale d'un parler breton : Douarnenez, thèse (3 vol.), Université de Rennes, 1977
  • Geriadur brezhoneg Douarnenez, 4 vol., Mouladurioù Hor Yezh, 1980, 1981, 1985
  • Mont war-raok gant ar brezhoneg, MHY, 1987

Articles and essays

In French

  • Joseph Ollivier, Les contes de Luzel (Préface de Per Denez, suivie d'une Postface sur “Contes Bretons” Pur-Terre de Brume, 1994), Hor Yezh, 1995
  • Bretagne et peuples d'Europe, MHY, 1999.

In Breton

  • Yezh ha bro, MHY, 1998.

Diverse

  • Korf an den Brest, Skridoù Breizh, 1943.

Translations

Bibliography

  • Bernard et Jacqueline Le Nail, Dictionnaire des romanciers de Bretagne, rubrique Per Denez, p. 80. Spézet, Keltia Graphic éditions, 1999,

References