Annie Saumont
Annie Saumont (born March 16, 1927 in Cherbourg , Département Manche ; † January 31, 2017 in Paris ) was a French translator and novelist who u. a. 1981 was awarded the Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle.
She grew up near Rouen and studied English . She then worked as a translator and translated works by John Fowles , Nadine Gordimer , VS Naipaul and Jerome David Salinger into French . In addition to her work as a translator, she also began to write herself and published six novels between 1957 and 1967.
Annie Saumont v. a. as a novelist. She was one of the few representatives of this genre in French literature and regularly published anthologies; Individual novellas appeared in German in anthologies and in 2003 the anthology Soap from Paris .
Many of her works are about crime, violence and hopeless or powerless characters who struggle with their human existence. Critics Saumonts is often highlighted compressed and sophisticated style, many with its subtlety same spaces can. Saumont also repeatedly reproduced various linguistic varieties in vocabulary and syntax and played with narrative perspectives .
Works (selection)
- 2013: Un si beau parterre de pétunias
- 2012: Le Tapis du salon
- 2010: Encore une belle journée
- 2008: Les croissants du dimanche
- 2005: Koman sa sécri émé?
- 2004: C'est rien ça va passer
- 2003: Un soir, à la maison
- 2000: Noir comme d'habitude
- 1998: Embrassons-nous
- 1996: après
- 1995: Le lait est un liquide blanc
- 1990: Quelque chose de la vie
- 1987: La terre est à nous
- 1984: Si on les tuait?
- 1979: Dieu regarde et se tait
literature
- John Taylor, Paths to Contemporary French Literature , Volume 2, Transaction Publishers 2007, pp. 158-163.
Web links
- Literature by and about Annie Saumont in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography at weblettres.net (French)
- Biography at frankreichforum.org (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2017/01/31/mort-de-l-ecrivaine-annie-saumont_5072348_3382.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Saumont, Annie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cherbourg , Manche department |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 31, 2017 |
| Place of death | Paris |