BIOGRAPHY
Born in northern France, Guy Ducornet studied at the Teacher’s College in Laon before graduating in English and American Studies from the Paris Sorbonne and the University of Normandy in Caen, (with an M.A. thesis on African-American novelist Ralph Ellison in 1961.) After spending the year 1959-60 at Bard College as a Fulbright scholar, he was invited back to teach French Language & Literature until 1968. Other visiting teaching positions in French and Fine Arts include Bowdoin College (Maine), State University of New Paltz (New York), McMaster University & Brock-Niagara University (Canada); Amherst College (Mass.) & Denver University (Colorado).
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Guy also taught in newly independent Algeria (1963-1966) and operated a pottery studio in the Loire Valley with Rikki Ducornet from 1978 to 1988, before going back to North America – Guy as artist in residence at Brock University (Ontario), and then Rikki as novelist in residence at Denver University (Colorado). Since 1991, between his studios in the Loire Valley and the rue Fontaine in Paris, Guy Ducornet has continued to write, translate and paint.
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