Dominique Fernandez
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Dominique Fernandez (born August 25, 1929 in Neuilly-sur-Seine , Hauts-de-Seine ) is a French author .
Life
Dominique Fernandez is the son of the French literary critic Ramon Fernandez . After finishing school he studied in Italy . In 1957 and 1958 he taught French language and literature at a French institute in Naples . In 1968 he received his doctorate on the Italian author Cesare Pavese . His job in Naples was terminated after teaching about communist author Roger Vailland . Fernandez returned to France, where he initially taught Italian at a school in Rennes . He later received a teaching position at the University of Rennes. Fernandez wrote several books and won the Prix Goncourt literary prize in 1982 . He is a member of the Académie française .
In 1961 Fernandez married Diane Jacquin de Margerie and has a daughter with her. Fernandez divorced in 1971. Fernandez has been openly gay since the 1970s .
Works (selection)
- Porporino ou les Mystères de Naples , 1974, (awarded the Prix Médicis 1975)
- Dans la main de l'ange (English: In the Angel's Hand ), 1982 (book about the Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini ), (awarded the Prix Goncourt )
- L'Amour (English: Love ), 1986 (book about the painter Friedrich Overbeck )
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Le Rapt de Ganymède , Grasset, 1989
- Übers. Verena Vannahme: The robbery of Ganymede . Beck & Glückler, Freiburg 1992 ISBN 3-89470-110-2 (A cultural history of homosexuality)
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L'école du sud.
- Übers. Maria Dessauer: The School of the South. Novel. Insel, Leipzig 1993 ISBN 3-458-16547-9 (A marriage and Sicily novel)
- Le Dernier des Medicis. (English: The Last of the Medicis ), 1994 (book about Gian Gastone de 'Medici )
- Tribunal d'honneur. (English: Court of Honor ), 1996 (book about the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky )
- Le loup et le chien. ( The Wolf and the Dog ), 1999
- A Hidden Love: Art and Homosexuality . 2002
- L'art de raconter . Grasset, 2007 ISBN 2-246-71931-3
- Place Rouge. Grasset, 2007 ISBN 978-2-246-72911-2
- Ramon. Grasset, 2009
Awards and honors (selection)
- Prix Médicis , 1975
- Prix Goncourt , 1982
- Member of the Académie française , 2007
- Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur
- Commandeur de l ' ordre national du Mérite
- Commandeur de l ' ordre national de la Croix du Sud du Brésil
- Lambda Literary Award in the Visual Arts category for A Hidden Love , 2003
Web links
- Literature by and about Dominique Fernandez in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
- Académie française: Discours de réception à l'Académie française (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b GLBTQ: Dominique Fernandez ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Novel about his father Ramon Fernandez. He was a well-known author in Paris in the 1920s / 1930s. In detail about "Ramon" as a person and a novel by Thomas Laux: Stand on the right side. in "Documents. Zs. for the Franco-German dialogue." Ed. Society for Supranational Cooperation, Bonn near Cologne. Issue 5-6, December 2009 ISSN 0012-5172 p. 115f. For Ramon see French Wikipedia
- ↑ Antonio Gonzalez Cerna: 15th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. In: Lambda Literary. July 10, 2003, accessed March 27, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fernandez, Dominique |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuilly-sur-Seine , Hauts-de-Seine department , France |