Celine Minard

Celine Minard (born 1969 in Rouen ) is a French writer.

Life

Celine Minard studied philosophy and then worked as a bookseller. She stayed temporarily in the USA and lives in Paris.

In her first novel, Minard and a literary great-nephew of the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau followed a path that Rousseau had embarked on in his youth.

In her books the author shows a wide range of topics, genres and narrative styles. Her novels Le Dernier Monde are about an astronaut returning to a now deserted earth, Bastard Battle is about an Asian swordsman in medieval Chaumont , and in the western Faillir être flingué the orphaned Indian girl "flowing across the plain" joins her. Water ”to a migrant trek. With her nine books so far (2016), Minard has won several important prizes, including the 2011 Franz Hessel Prize for So long, Luise .

Works (selection)

• R. Comp'Act, 2004
• La manadology . Musica Falsa Éditions, 2005
• Le Dernier Monde . Denoël, 2007
• Bastard battle . Léo Scheer, 2008
• Olimpia . Denoël, 2010
• So long, Luise . Denoël, 2011
  • So long, Luise. Novel . Translation of Nathalie Mälzer . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95757-324-7
• Faillir être flingué . Rivages, 2013
  • With healthy skin. Novel . Translation of Nathalie Mälzer. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-95757-100-7
• KA TA, emballé par scomparo . Rivages, 2014
• Le Grand Jeu . Rivages, Paris 2016
  • The big game. Novel . Translation of Nathalie Mälzer. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-95757-526-5

Web links

• Literature by and about Celine Minard in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Celine Minard in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Céline Minard in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Short biography and reviews of works by Celine Minard at perlentaucher.de
• Celine Minard , at Matthes & Seitz
• Céline Minard , at the Berlin International Literature Festival , 2014