Alexandre Lacroix

Alexandre Lacroix (2013)

Alexandre Lacroix (born September 2, 1975 in Poitiers ) is a French writer , essayist and journalist .

Life

Alexandre Lacroix grew up in Paris . He studied economics and philosophy at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and then political science . He graduated in 1998 and published his first autobiographical novel, Premières volontés . Since 1999 he has been teaching creative writing at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris . After his studies, he lived in a village in Burgundy and devoted himself to writing. Returning to Paris the previous year, he founded the Philosophy Magazine in 2006 , a French magazine for philosophical topics that has been published ten times a year since 2006 and of which he is editor-in-chief . A German sister magazine has been published since 2011. The translation of his 2011 essay Contribution à la théorie du baiser attracted attention in German-speaking countries .

Alexandre Lacroix is married and has three children.

Premières volontés . Grasset, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-246-55471-3 .
Se noyer dans l'alcool? Presses universitaires de France, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-13-052112-6 .
La Mire . Flammarion, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-08-068345-4 .
La grâce du criminel . Presses universitaires de France, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-13-054624-2 .
De la supériorité des femmes . Flammarion, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-08-120922-0 .
Quand j'étais nietzschéen . Flammarion, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-08-122167-3 .
L'Orfelin . Flammarion, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-08-124131-2 .
Contribution à la théorie du baiser . Ed. Autrement, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-7467-3047-2 .
Voyage au center de Paris . Flammarion, Paris 2012, ISBN 978-2-08-129030-3 .
Little essay about kissing . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-88221-033-0 (French: Contribution à la théorie du baiser . Translated by Till Bardoux).