Alain Veinstein (born 17 August 1942) is a poet and writer, winner of the

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and a host and producer of

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Biography

Since 1978, Alain Veinstein is also the voice of the nights of ''

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'' with interviews on the program ''Du jour au lendemain'', which ran from 1985 to 2014, and broadcasts, ''Surprised by the night'', and ''surprised by the poetry''. He created "The magnetic Nights" in 1978. He interviewed

Marguerite Duras Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu (, 4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as Marguerite Duras (), was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film ''Hiroshima mon amour'' (1959) ea ...

. Veinstein is essayist

Laure Adler Laure Adler (née Laure Clauzet; born 11 March 1950) is a French journalist, writer, publisher and radio/TV producer. Works Biographies * 1986: ''L'Amour à l'arsenic : histoire de Marie Lafarge'', Denoël. * 1998: ''Marguerite Duras'', � ...

's husband.

Works

Fiction

* (''The Piano Tuner''). Calmann-Levy (1996) – "The narrator, who never knew his father, was raised by his grandfather, a dark and quiet man who worked as a gravedigger. When, in turn it becomes father words intended for his son missed. A novel about the incompatibility between human beings and on the descent. *''The Interviewer''. Calmann-Levy (2002) – "The interviewer is a radio presenter for a literary program, viewers of all these writers. A day to force the speeches too well prepared, it feels to unlearn any language not to hear or understand ... " * "The life of a Parisian art dealer in the Rue de Lappe somewhat disillusioned. * (''The Score''). Grasset and Folio (2006) – "The man that I hardly ever approached in the flesh, I have always regarded as a kind of monster, a butcher ..." *''Dancing''. The threshold then Folio (2006) – "The Story of a man who decides, after having spent years writing enclosed within four walls, to take his life last arm to the waist."

Non Fiction

Poetry

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Anthologies

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Notes and references

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