Laurent Mauvignier (born in 1967,
Tours
Tours ( , ) is one of the largest cities in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the prefecture of the department of Indre-et-Loire. The commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabitants as of 2018 while the population of the whole metro ...
) is a French writer.
Biography
After studying visual arts at the
École des Beaux-Arts
École des Beaux-Arts (; ) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth centur ...
in Paris, Laurent Mauvignier decided to become a writer in the 1990s following the advice of
Tanguy Viel, a friend and novelist.
To date, he published all his works at the
éditions de Minuit, where along with
Jean Echenoz,
Jean-Philippe Toussaint
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,
Marie NDiaye
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or
Éric Chevillard
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, Laurent Mauvignier is associated with the so-called « Style
es éditions deMinuit ».
Works
Novels
*''Loin d'eux'', éditions de Minuit, 1999, –
Prix Fénéon
The Fénéon Prize (''Prix Fénéon''), established in 1949, is awarded annually to a French-language writer and a visual artist no older than 35 years of age. The prize was established by Fanny Fénéon, the widow of French art critic Félix Fén ...
2000
*''Apprendre à finir'', éditions de Minuit, 2000, –
Prix Wepler 2001;
Inter Book Prize 2001
*''Ceux d'à côté'', éditions de Minuit, 2002,
*''Plus sale, Inventaire-invention'', 2002,
*''Seuls'', éditions de Minuit, 2004,
*''Le Lien'', éditions de Minuit, 2005,
*''Dans la foule'', éditions de Minuit, 2006, –
Prix du roman Fnac 2006
*''Des hommes'', éditions de Minuit, 2009, – Prix Virilo 2009;
Prix des libraires 2010
*''Un jour dans la vie'', édité par la librairie Passages, 2010,
*''
Ce que j'appelle oubli'', éditions de Minuit, 2011,
*''Autour du monde'', éditions de Minuit, 2014, – Prix Amerigo-Vespucci 2014
*''Retour à Berratham'', éditions de Minuit, 2015,
*''
Histoires de la nuit'', éditions de Minuit, 2020
;Translated works:
*''In the Crowd''
'Dans la foule'' Faber and Faber, 2008, .
*''The Wound''
'Des hommes'' University of Nebraska Press
The University of Nebraska Press, also known as UNP, was founded in 1941 and is an academic publisher of scholarly and general-interest books. The press is under the auspices of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, the main campus of the Unive ...
, 2015, .
* ''Ελληνική μετάφραση'':(Greek Translation) Αυτό που εγώ ονομάζω λήθη, μετάφρ. Σπύρος Γιανναράς, εκδ. «`Αγρα», Αθήνα 2014, 75 σελ., ISBN 978-960-505-141-9
Play
* ''Tout mon amour'', éditions de Minuit, 2012, .
Participation
*2021: La Légende de Thierry Mauvignier, directed by
Dylan Besseau
Literary prizes
*2000:
Prix Fénéon
The Fénéon Prize (''Prix Fénéon''), established in 1949, is awarded annually to a French-language writer and a visual artist no older than 35 years of age. The prize was established by Fanny Fénéon, the widow of French art critic Félix Fén ...
*2001:
Prix Wepler
*2001:
Prix du Livre Inter
The Prix du Livre Inter is a prize for best French novel of the year. It is awarded by the radio channel France Inter
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*2006:
Prix du roman Fnac
*2010:
Prix des libraires
*2014:
Prix Amerigo-Vespucci
References
External links
Mauvignier's official website(in English and French)
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21st-century French novelists
21st-century French dramatists and playwrights
Prix Fénéon winners
Prix du Livre Inter winners
Prix du premier roman winners
Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
1967 births
Writers from Tours, France
Living people
Prix des libraires winners