Fabrice Hadjadj (born 1971) is a French writer and philosopher. Hadjadj was born in

Nanterre Nanterre (; ) is the prefecture of the Hauts-de-Seine department in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located some northwest of the centre of Paris. In 2018, the commune had a population of 96,807. The eastern part of Nanterre, b ...

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parents of

Tunisia Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia also shares m ...

n heritage. In his teens he was an

atheist Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...

and

anarchist Anarchism is a political philosophy and Political movement, movement that seeks to abolish all institutions that perpetuate authority, coercion, or Social hierarchy, hierarchy, primarily targeting the state (polity), state and capitalism. A ...

, and he maintained a

nihilistic Nihilism () encompasses various views that reject certain aspects of existence. There have been different nihilist positions, including the views that life is meaningless, that moral values are baseless, and that knowledge is impossible. Thes ...

attitude for most of his twenties until, in 1998, he converted to

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. His book ''Réussir sa mort: Anti-méthode pour vivre'', won the

Grand prix catholique de littérature The grand prix catholique de littérature is a French literary prize awarded by the Association des écrivains catholiques de langue française (established in 1886). History Established in 1945 (prix du Renouveau français) under the impulse of ...

in 2006. Currently Hadjadj teaches philosophy and literature in

Toulon Toulon (, , ; , , ) is a city in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France. Located on the French Riviera and the historical Provence, it is the prefecture of the Var (department), Var department. The Commune of Toulon h ...

. He is married to the actress Siffreine Michel. They have ten children. In 2014, Hadjadj was nominated as member of the

Pontifical Council for the Laity The Pontifical Council for the Laity was a pontifical council of the Roman Catholic Curia from 1967 to 2016. It had the responsibility of assisting the Pope in his dealings with the laity in lay ecclesial movements or individually, and their ...

Publications

* ''Traité de Bouddhisme zen à l'usage du bourgeois d'Occident'' (under the pseudonym Tetsuo-Marcel Kato), Éditions du PARC, 1998 * ''Et les violents s'en emparent'', Éditions Les Provinciales, 1999 * ''A quoi sert de gagner le monde: Une vie de saint François Xavier'', Éditions Les Provinciales, 2002; revised edition 2004 (Play) * ''La terre chemin du ciel'', Éditions du Cerf, 2002 * ''La salle capitulaire'' (with Gérard Breuil), Éditions Les Provinciales, 2003 (Monologues to accompany an exhibition by Breuil) * ''Arcabas: Passion Résurrection'', Éditions du Cerf, 2004 (Theatrical work to accompany a

polyptych A polyptych ( ; Greek: ''poly-'' "many" and ''ptychē'' "fold") is a work of art (usually a panel painting) which is divided into sections, or panels. Some definitions restrict "polyptych" to works with more than three sections: a diptych is ...

Arcabas Jean-Marie Pirot (December 26, 1926 – August 23, 2018), popularly known as Arcabas (a name given to him by his pupils), was a French contemporary sacred artist. Pirot was born in Trémery. He studied in the ''École Nationale Supérieure de ...

) * ''Réussir sa mort: Anti-méthode pour vivre'', Presses de la Renaissance, 2005 (Grand Prix catholique de littérature) * ''Massacre des Innocents: Scènes de ménage et de tragédie'', Éditions Les Provinciales, 2006 (Play) * ''La profondeur des sexes: Pour une mystique de la chair'', Éditions du Seuil, 2008 * ''L'agneu mystique: Le retable des frères Van Eyck'', Éditions de l'Oeuvre, 2008 * ''Pasiphaé: ou comment l'on devient la mère du Minotaure'', Éditions Desclée de Brouer, 2009 (Play) * ''La foi des dėmons: ou l'athéisme dépassé'', Éditions Salvator, 2009 * ''Le jugement dernier: Le retable de Beaune'', Éditions de l'Oeuvre, 2010 * ''Le Paradis à la porte: Essai sur une joie qui dérange'', Éditions du Seuil, 2011 * ''Job: ou la torture des amis'', Éditions Salvator, 2011 * ''Comment parler de Dieu aujourd'hui: Anti-manuel d'évangélisation'', Éditions Salvator, 2012 * ''Résurrection, Mode d'emploi'', Magnificat, 2015 (French edition) * ''The Resurrection: Experience Life in the Risen Christ'', Magnificat, 2015 (English edition) * ''Dernières nouvelles de l'homme (et de la femme aussi)'', Éditions Tallandier, 2017,

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1971 births Living people French people of Tunisian-Jewish descent Converts to Roman Catholicism from atheism or agnosticism Converts to Roman Catholicism from Judaism Members of the Pontifical Council for the Laity French essayists 20th-century French philosophers 21st-century French philosophers French religious writers French Roman Catholics French male essayists People from Nanterre {{France-philosopher-stub