Gilbert Prouteau (14 June 1917 – 2 August 2012) was a French poet and film director. He was born in Nesmy, Vendée. In 1948 he won a bronze medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his "Rythme du Stade" ("Rhythm of the Stadium"). At the beginning of the 1990s he was, with Jean-Pierre Thiollet, one of the writers contributing to the French magazine L'Amateur d'Art.
Selected works
Rythme du Stade, Lugdunum, 1942 (poems)
La part du vent, Ariane, 1947 (poems)
Anthologie des textes sportifs de la littérature, Défense de la France, 1948
Saison blanche, Amiot Dumont, 1951
Le Sexe des Anges, Grasset, 1952
La peur des femmes, Grasset, 1959
Immortelle Vendée, Les productions de Paris, 1959
Retour aux sources, Editions Hérault, 1960
Les Dieux meurent le matin, Grasset, 1962 (A collection relating the tragic deaths of ten poets).
