François Cheng (程抱一) (born August 30, 1929) is a French writer, poet and calligrapher.
Born in China, he was elected to the Académie française in 2002, and was the first person of Asian origin to be a member of this Academy.
It took many years before he beame a novelist. His first works were on Chinese poetry and painting. Later he began to write works of poetry himself, before finally turning to the writing novels.
Bibliography
- Analyse formelle de l'œuvre poétique d'un auteur des Tang : Zhang Ruoxu (1970)
- Le Pousse-pousse, by Lao She, translation (1973)
- L'Écriture poétique chinoise (1977)
- Vide et plein: le langage pictural chinois (1979)
- L'espace du rêve: mille ans de peinture chinoise (1980)
- Sept poètes français (1983)
- Henri Michaux, sa vie, son œuvre (1984)
- Chu Ta : le génie du trait (1986)
- Some Reflections on Chinese Poetic Language and its Relation to Chinese Cosmology dans The Vitality of the Lyric Voice (1986)
- The Reciprocity of Subject and Object in Chinese Poetic Language dans Poetics East and West (1988)
- De l'arbre et du rocher (1989)
- Entre source et nuage, Voix de poètes dans la Chine d'hier et d'aujourd'hui (1990)
- Saisons à vie (1993)
- Trente-six poèmes d'amour (1997)
- Quand les pierres font signe (1997) (with Fabienne Verdier)
- Le Dit de Tyanyi (1998) Prix Femina
- Shitao : la saveur du monde (1998) Prix André Malraux
- Cantos toscans (1999)
- D'où jaillit le chant (2000)
- Double chant (2000) Prix Roger Caillois
- Et le souffle devient signe (2001)
- Qui dira notre nuit (2001)
- L'éternité n'est pas de trop (2002)
