DOA (Author)

DOA (* 1968 in Lyon ) is the pseudonym of a French crime novel writer and screenwriter . His nom de plume refers to Rudolph Maté's American film noir D.OA ( Victims of the Underworld ) from 1950.

life and work

DOA is a representative of Roman noir , which is stylistically based on the American hardboiled novel , but its content is more political and socially critical. DOA is the only author to have received the Grand prix de littérature policière twice , in 2007 for his novel Citoyens clandestins and in 2011 together with Dominique Manotti for the jointly written novel The Honorable Society .

Publications

Novels

• 2004 Les Fous d'avril , Fleuve noir, Paris
• 2004 La Ligne de sang , Fleuve noir, Paris
• 2007 Citoyens clandestins , Gallimard, Paris
• 2009 Le Serpent aux mille coupures , Gallimard, Paris
• 2011 L'Honorable Société , with Dominique Manotti, Gallimard, Paris
• Dominique Manotti and DOA : The honorable company . Association A, Berlin / Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86241-419-2 (French: L'honorable société, 2011. Translated by Barbara Heber-Schärer).
• 2015 Pukhtu primo , Gallimard, Paris

stories

• 2010 Bonne année, K. , in Télérama, January 2, 2010.

Awards

• 2007 Grand prix de littérature policière for Citoyens clandestins
• 2011 Grand prix de littérature policière for L'Honorable Société
• 2016 Prix ​​Mystère de la critique for Pukhtu: Primo

Web links

• Literature by and about DOA in the catalog of the German National Library
• Author page at Gallimard (French)
• Author information from his German publisher Association A
• Review in the Frankfurter Rundschau on The honorable society
• Short story Bonne année, K. (French)