Frédéric Boyer (born 2 March 1961,

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) is a French author of novels, poems, essays, and translations.

Biography

A former student of the École normale supérieure de Fontenay Saint-Cloud, he coordinated the ''Bible Nouvelle Traduction'' (Bayard, 2001), with

Olivier Cadiot Olivier Cadiot (born 1956) is a French writer, poet, dramatist and translator. Cadiot was born in Paris. His first book of poems, ''L'Art poetic,'' in which he used the cut-up technique The cut-up technique (or ''découpé'' in French) is an a ...

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, and others. He proposed new translations of the '' Confessions'' by

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for which he was awarded th
Prix Jules Janin
of the

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(''Les aveux'', P.O.L., 2008) as well as ''

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'', P.O.L 2010 and '' Shakespeare's sonnets'', P.O.L., 2010). He is published by . He is also the president of Tetra Media Studios, best known in the Anglophone world for the television drama series A French Village. He is currently the literary director of Éditions P.O.L. He assumed this position in 2018 after the death of the publishing house's founding editor, Paul Otchakovsky-Laurens.

Works

*1991: ''La Consolation'' *1992: ''En prison'' *1993: ''Des choses idiotes et douces'',

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*1993: ''Comprendre et compatir'' *1994: ''Comme des anges'' *1995: ''Le dieu qui était mort si jeune'' *1995: ''Est-ce que tu m'aimes ?'' *1995: ''Les Innocents'' *1995: ''L'ennemi d'amour'' *1996: ''Arrière, fantômes !'' *1996: ''Dieu, le sexe et nous'' *1997: ''Notre faute'' *1998: ''Le Vertige des blondes'' *1999: ''Le Goût du suicide lent'' *1999: ''Pas aimée'' *2000: ''Kids'' *2000: ''Une fée'' *2002: ''Gagmen'' *2002: ''La Bible, notre exil'' *2003: ''Songs'' *2003: ''Mauvais vivants'' *2004: ''Mes amis mes amis'' *2004: ''« Nous nous aimons »'' *2005: ''Abraham remix'' *2006: ''Patraque'' *2008: ''Vaches'' *2009: ''Orphée'' *2009: ''Hammurabi Hammurabi'' *2010: ''Techniques de l'amour'' *2012: ''Phèdre les oiseaux'' *2013: ''Rappeler Roland'' *2014: ''Dans ma prairie'' *2015: ''Quelle terreur en nous ne veut pas finir ?'' *2015: ''Kâmasûtra'' *2016: ''Les Yeux noirs'' *2017: ''Là où le coeur attend'' *2018: ''peut-être pas immortelle'' *2020: ''Sous l'éclat des flèches'' *2020: ''Jésus : l'histoire d'une parole'' (Illustrated by Serge Bloch)

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