Delphine de Vigan

Delphine de Vigan (2011)

Delphine de Vigan (born March 1, 1966 in Paris ) is a French writer .

Delphine de Vigan is the mother of a son and a daughter and lives in Paris with her two children. While she worked in a polling institute during the day and looked after her children, she wrote her first novels late at night and late at night. Since 2007, after the great success of her novel “ No & Ich ”, she has made a living from writing.

Publications

Delphine de Vigan has published several novels, the first - Jours sans faim - under the pseudonym Lou Delvig.

For her third novel Un soir de décembre , published in 2006 , she received the Saint-Valentin literary prize .

She achieved her final breakthrough as an author with her novel No et moi, in which she describes the life of a young homeless person from the perspective of a gifted thirteen-year-old girl. The novel was awarded the Prix ​​des Libraires 2008 and the Prix ​​du Rotary international 2009 ; it has been translated into more than twenty languages ​​and filmed by Zabou Breitman .

In 2015 she received the Prix ​​Renaudot and the Prix ​​Goncourt des lycéens for D'après une histoire vraie .

In 2018 her novel Loyalities was published , which tells of the young Theo, who suffers from difficult family circumstances after his parents divorced. Due to excessive demands, he begins to drink large quantities of alcohol. He gets into a fatal downward spiral in which he draws his best friend.

Reception "loyalties"

The NDR honors loyalties as a great novel and writes:

“The author manages the changes fluently. She writes calmly and to the point. Nevertheless, it remains a bitter book, sometimes hardly manageable in its weight. If it weren't for this tender, loving confidence somewhere between the lines. "

- Juliane Bergmann : NDR

Deutschlandfunk sees the work as an analysis of interpersonal relationships and writes:

“What does loyalty really mean? As in her earlier novels, Delphine de Vigan stands behind the weak in society. With relentless sharpness she exposes disguised, broken structures in the school system and in families. "

- Birgit Koß : Deutschlandfunk

The portal femundo praises the novel as hard and precise and compares it to an overly sharp photograph:

“Sober in tone, and at the same time heartbreaking, Delphine de Vigan tells of the coldness of family relationships and painful emotional ties. The short novel shocks, sometimes makes you hold your breath - and comforts you with a tiny glimmer of hope. "

- femundo.de

Works

• Jours sans faim. Grasset, 2001, ISBN 2246611717 (published under the pseudonym Lou Delvig).
  • Days without hunger. Translated from the French by Doris Heinemann . DuMont, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-8321-9837-4 .
• Les jolis garçons. JC Lattès, 2005, ISBN 978-2-709-62624-8 .
• Un soir de décembre. JC Lattès, 2005, ISBN 978-2-709-62725-2 .
• No et moi . Novel. JC Lattès 2007. ISBN 978-2709636391
  • No & me. Translated from the French by Doris Heinemann. Droemer, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-426-19831-5 .
• Les Heures souterraines. Novel. JC Lattès 2009. ISBN 978-2709630405 .
  • I forgot that I was vulnerable. Novel. Translated from the French by Doris Heinemann. Droemer, Munich 2010. ISBN 978-3-426-19886-5 .
• Rien ne s'oppose à la nuit. Novel. JC Lattés 2011. ISBN 978-2709635790 .
  • My mother's smile. Translated from the French by Doris Heinemann. Droemer, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-426-19946-6 .
• D'après une histoire vraie. Roman, 2015
  • After a true story. Translated from the French by Doris Heinemann. DuMont, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-8321-9830-5 .
• Les loyautés. Novel. JC Lattès 2018
  • Loyalties. Translated by Doris Heinemann. DuMont, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-8321-8359-2 .
• Les gratitudes . Novel. JC Lattès 2019.
  • Gratitude. Translated by Doris Heinemann. DuMont, Cologne 2020. ISBN 978-3832181123 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Delphine de Vigan in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Delphine de Vigan at perlentaucher.de
• Short biography Delphine de Vigan
• Interview with Delphine de Vigan
• Review of the novel “No & Ich” on Deutschlandradio Kultur

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mélanie Carpentier: Interview de Delphine de Vigan. Ecrire la fragility. In: Le Figaro. August 24, 2005, accessed May 12, 2004 . 
2. ↑ Astrid Eliard: Delphine de Vigan, mi-mi-guépard hérisson. In: Le Figaro. July 1, 2008, accessed on May 10, 2014 (fr-fr): "No et Moi est en cours d'adaptation au cinéma et traduit dans plus de vingt pays." 
3. ↑ Great novel about a fragile childhood. ndr.de, November 18, 2018, accessed on February 1, 2019 . 
4. ↑ A dangerous pact of silence. deutschlandfunkkultur.de, September 17, 2018, accessed on February 1, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Ambassadors between warring armies. femundo.de, September 17, 2018, accessed on February 1, 2019 .