Henri Queffélec

Queffélec, Henri (1910-92). Novelist. His realistic fiction—Tempête sur Douarnenez (1951), Un homme d'Ouessant (1953), Un royaume sous la mer (1957)—celebrates his native Finistère, its wild sea-coast, its fishermen, and, as in Un recteur de l'Île de Sein (1944) which brought him fame, its fishers of men, for his maritime Celtic spirit is fused with Catholicism. A contributor to Mounier's Esprit, he later concerned himself with environmental issues—Quand la terre fait naufrage (1965)—and published his autobiography, Un Breton bien tranquille, in 1978.

[David Steel]