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'''Gilles Carpentier''' (14 June 1950, Paris – 16 September 2016<ref name="Livre Hebdo">[http://www.livreshebdo.fr/article/disparition-de-gilles-carpentier ''Disparition de Gilles Carpentier'']</ref>) was a French writer and [[editor]] |
'''Gilles Carpentier''' (14 June 1950, Paris – 16 September 2016<ref name="Livre Hebdo">[http://www.livreshebdo.fr/article/disparition-de-gilles-carpentier ''Disparition de Gilles Carpentier'']</ref>) was a French writer and [[editor]] |
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== Biography == |
== Biography == |
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After various menial jobs at the [[La Poste (France)|PTT]] or in the cinema, then a journalist with the cultural section of ''{{ill|Rouge (presse)|fr|3=Rouge (presse)|lt=Rouge}}'' in the 1970s, where he published numerous chronicles on [[free jazz]], Carpentier also became a reader for the [[Éditions du Seuil]].<ref name="Livre Hebdo"/> In charge of the manuscript service and member of its reading committee from 1981, he was a full-fledged publisher in 1992 and until 2003.<ref name="Livre Hebdo"/> He discovered [[Agota Kristof]] with the novel ''{{ill|Le Grand Cahier|fr|3=|lt= The Notebook}}''<ref name="LibéNext"> |
After various menial jobs at the [[La Poste (France)|PTT]] or in the cinema, then a journalist with the cultural section of ''{{ill|Rouge (presse)|fr|3=Rouge (presse)|lt=Rouge}}'' in the 1970s, where he published numerous chronicles on [[free jazz]], Carpentier also became a reader for the [[Éditions du Seuil]].<ref name="Livre Hebdo"/> In charge of the manuscript service and member of its reading committee from 1981, he was a full-fledged publisher in 1992 and until 2003.<ref name="Livre Hebdo"/> He discovered [[Agota Kristof]] with the novel ''{{ill|Le Grand Cahier|fr|3=|lt= The Notebook}}''<ref name="LibéNext">{{Cite web |url=http://next.liberation.fr/livres/2016/09/23/mort-de-gilles-carpentier_1507801 |title=''Mort de Gilles Carpentier'' |access-date=2017-01-07 |archive-date=2016-09-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160924173623/http://next.liberation.fr/livres/2016/09/23/mort-de-gilles-carpentier_1507801 |url-status=dead }}</ref> which became a great success in France and also the writer [[Abdelhak Serhane]].<ref name="Livre Hebdo"/> He also edited numerous African and Francophone authors including [[Aimé Césaire]] (whose complete poetry he edited), [[Ahmadou Kourouma]], [[Sony Labou Tansi]], [[Kateb Yacine]], [[Kossi Efoui]], or [[Tierno Monenembo]].<ref name="Livre Hebdo"/><ref name="LibéNext"/> |
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Éditions du Seuil greeted him as an "immense reader and discoverer of talent".<ref name="Livre Hebdo"/> |
Éditions du Seuil greeted him as an "immense reader and discoverer of talent".<ref name="Livre Hebdo"/> |
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Latest revision as of 15:09, 21 December 2023
Gilles Carpentier (14 June 1950, Paris – 16 September 2016[1]) was a French writer and editor
Biography[edit]
After various menial jobs at the PTT or in the cinema, then a journalist with the cultural section of Rouge in the 1970s, where he published numerous chronicles on free jazz, Carpentier also became a reader for the Éditions du Seuil.[1] In charge of the manuscript service and member of its reading committee from 1981, he was a full-fledged publisher in 1992 and until 2003.[1] He discovered Agota Kristof with the novel The Notebook[2] which became a great success in France and also the writer Abdelhak Serhane.[1] He also edited numerous African and Francophone authors including Aimé Césaire (whose complete poetry he edited), Ahmadou Kourouma, Sony Labou Tansi, Kateb Yacine, Kossi Efoui, or Tierno Monenembo.[1][2]
Éditions du Seuil greeted him as an "immense reader and discoverer of talent".[1]
He was also the author of six books, which were all in one way or another about one of his favorite subjects, the contemporary city. His latest novel, Les Bienveillantes [not to be mistaken with J. Littell's eponymous work (2006)] is written in an entirely dialogued form.
Les Manuscrits de la marmotte published in 1984, earned him the Prix Fénéon for literature.
Works[edit]
- 1984: Les Manuscrits de la marmotte, Éditions du Seuil, Prix Fénéon
- 1988: Tous couchés, Seuil
- 1992: Haussmann m'empêche de dormir, Seuil
- 1994: Scandale de bronze. Lettre à Aimé Césaire, Seuil
- 1999: Couper cabèche, Seuil
- 2002: Les Bienveillantes, Stock
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f Disparition de Gilles Carpentier
- ^ a b "Mort de Gilles Carpentier". Archived from the original on 2016-09-24. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
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