Yannick Haenel (born 1967,

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) is a French writer, cofounder of the literary magazine '.

Biography

The son of a soldier, Yannick Haenel studied at the Prytanée National Militaire at

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. From 1997, he codirected the magazine ''Ligne de risque'' with François Meyronnis. Until 2005 he was a teacher of French at lycée La Bruyère in

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. He published several novels, including ''Introduction à la mort française'' and ''Évoluer parmi les avalanches'', as well as an essay about the tapestries of ''

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'': ''À mon seul désir''. He also directed two volumes of interviews with

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: ''Ligne de risque'' and ''Poker''. In 2007, he published ''Cercle'' (

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), a novel which earned him the

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and the

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. In 2007, a controversy arose with

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who accused him of plagiarism. In 2008-2009, Haenel was a resident at the

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, the

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. In 2009, he was awarded the

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and the Prix du roman Fnac for '.This book has three parts: # The first part is directly inspired by the film ''

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'' by

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, where the Polish resistant Karski is interviewed. # The second part summarizes in approximately 80 pages the testimony of Karski published in English in 1944 under the title ''Story of a secret state''. # The third part depicts Karski's feelings and relates dialogues that are presented by the author as a fiction.

published a vigorous criticism of the novel of which he described the third part as a "falsification of history". He reproached Haenel for having plagiarized the dialogues of his film without having asked for authorization.

, the director of Gallimard's collection '' L'Infini'', said that he submitted Lanzmann the prints of the novel before publication which Lanzmann has always denied. Haenel responded by claiming the freedom of the novelist Yannick Haenel is a columnist for the literary and film magazine ' since 2010 and ''

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'' since the resumption of publication after the January 2015 attacks.

Work

Novels

*1996: ''Les Petits Soldats'', La Table ronde *2001: ''Introduction à la mort française'', Gallimard, series "L'Infini" *2003: ''Évoluer parmi les avalanches'', Gallimard, series "L'Infini" *2007: ''Cercle'', Gallimard, series "L'Infini", ,

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2007,

2008. *2009: ''Jan Karski'', Gallimard, series "L'Infini", 2009 , Prix du roman Fnac and

. *2013: ''Les Renards pâles'', Gallimard, series "L'Infini" *2017 ''Tiens ferme ta couronne'', Gallimard, series "L'Infini"

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of 2017

Fictions

*2005: ''À mon seul désir'', *2011: ''Le Sens du calme'', Mercure de France, series "Traits et portraits" *2015: ''Je cherche l'Italie'', Gallimard, series "L'Infini"

Essay

*2009: ''Prélude à la délivrance'', with François Meyronnis, Gallimard, series "L'Infini"

Interviews

*2005: ''Ligne de risque'', under the direction of Yannick Haenel and François Meyronnis, Gallimard, series "L'Infini" *2005: ''Poker'', entretiens de la revue ''Ligne de risque'' with Philippe Sollers, Gallimard, series "L'Infini"

Honours

* 2010 Chevalier of the

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* 2012 Chevalier of the

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Nomination ou promotion �
''Monitor Polski 2012 Poz. 490''
– article 25 ; janvier 2012. * 2017

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for ''Tiens ferme ta couronne''

References

External links

Tilmann Krause: "Die Henker interessieren mich nicht"
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