Eric Faye

Eric Faye (2012)

Éric Faye (born December 3, 1963 in Limoges ) is a French writer.

Life

Éric Faye attended the École supérieure de journalisme de Lille and works as an editor and translator for the Reuters press agency . He published his first short story Le Général Solitude in the magazine Le Serpent à Plumes in 1992 , which became his first novel in 1995 under the same title. In 1991 he worked with Ismail Kadaré and wrote an essay about him. Later he was co-editor of his French edition, largely translated by Jusuf Vrioni .

Faye writes novels, travelogues, essays and short stories. In 1998 he received a (shared) Prix ​​des Deux Magots for Je suis le gardien du phare and then other prizes. In 2010 he received the Grand Prix de l'Académie Française literary prize for the novel Nagasaki .

Works (selection)

• Ismail Kadaré, Prométhée porte-feu . Essay. 1991
• Conversaciones con Ismail Kadare . 1991
• In the laboratories du pire . Essay. 1993
• Le Général Solitude . Narrative. 1995
• Le sanatorium des malades du temps . Essay. 1996
• Parij . Narrative. 1997
• Je suis le gardien du phare . Stories. 1997
• Le Mystère des trois frontières . Narrative. 1998
• Croisière en mer des pluies . Narrative. 1999
• Les Lumières fossiles et Autres Récits . Stories. 2000
• Les Cendres de mon avenir , novela, 2001
• Quelques nobles causes pour rebellions en panne , 2002
• La Durée d'une vie sans toi . Narrative. 2003
• Mes trains de nuit . Narrative. 2005
• Un clown s'est échappé du cirque . Stories. 2005
• Le Syndicat des pauvres types . Narrative. 2006
• Billet pour le pays doré . Narrative. 2007
• Passager de la ligne morte . Narrative. 2008
• L'Homme sans empreintes . Narrative. 2008
• Nous aurons toujours Paris . Autobiographical narrative. 2009
• Quelques nouvelles de l'homme . Stories. Illustrations by Laurent Dierick. 2009
• Nagasaki . Novel. 2010
  • Vacancies in Nagasaki: Roman . Translation of Bettina Deininger. Munich: Austernbank, 2014
• Nuit du verdict , 2010
• with Christian Garcin: En descendant les fleuves . 2011
• Devenir immortel, et puis mourir , 2012
• Somnambule in Istanbul , 2013
• Malgré Fukushima, journal japonais , 2014
• Une si lente absence (Moscou-Pékin) , 2014
• Il faut tenter de vivre , Stock, 2015
• Éclipses japonaises , Le Seuil, 2016

Web links

• Literature by and about Éric Faye in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Éric Faye in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Éric Faye in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Isabelle Lassalle: Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française 2010, Eric Faye , France Culture, October 28, 2010
• Éric Faye , at Institut français , Bremen, March 15, 2018
• Éric Faye: Rooms available in Nagasaki , at the oyster bank