- Roparz Hemon
Roparz Hemon (
18 November 1900 in Brest –29 June 1978 inDublin ) was a Breton author and scholar of Breton expression.He was the author of numerous dictionaries, grammars, poems and short stories. He also founded "
Gwalarn ", a literary journal in Breton where many young authors published their first writings during the 1920s and 1930s.Hemon served in the
French Army at the beginning of theSecond World War , where he was wounded and taken prisoner by the Germans.Back in Brest in August 1940, he took back publishing "Gwalarn". In November 1940, he was appointed at "Radio Roazhon-Breizh",
Breton language weekly broadcast set up by the "Propagandastaffel " [http://www.aber.ac.uk/mercator/images/breton_literature_during_German_Occupation.pdf Breton literature during German Occupation] , Mercator, The University of Wales] . From 1941, he directed the weekly publication "Arvor", where he made several anti-semitic statements [fr [http://membres.lycos.fr/leguenne/etudes/arvor/arvor.htm Roparz Hémon, Arvor, l'antisémitisme et le PNB, en janvier 1944] , Les déclarations antisémites de Roparz Hemon] . In October 1942, Hemon was appointed byLeo Weisgerber to help found the "Celtic Institute of Britanny". Hemon rendered other services to the Germans, like helping in constituting files against "préfet " Ripert.At the Liberation, Hemon fled to Germany; he returned in 1945, was imprisoned for one year, and sentenced to ten years of
Indignité nationale He went in exile to
Ireland .References
External links
* [http://librepenseefrance.ouvaton.org/actions/charte_langues/hemon_2.htm Lettre ouverte à Monsieur le Maire de Guingamp]
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