Armand Lanoux

Armand Lanoux (24 October 1913 - 23 March 1983) was a French writer. Biography Lanoux was born in Paris. Early in life he had several jobs: he was a teacher, designer of candy boxes, bank employee, painter and journalist. He became an editor for the literary Artheme Fayard (1950), editor of the magazine À la page (1964), chaired the Committee on French television in 1958-1959, and was appointed Secretary General of Radio and Television International University. He was a member of a 13 member panel that chose Dors Mon Amour as the French Eurovision entry in 1958, where it finished 1st out of 10. He was a member of the France-USSR Association. He participated in drafting the Code des Usages. He wrote in many genres: the novel, non-fiction, chronicles, drama, poetry (Apollinaire 1953 Chapman prize).