Paul Fournel

Paul Fournel (2012)

Paul Fournel (born May 20, 1947 in Saint-Étienne , Loire department ) is a French writer.

biography

Fournel was born the son of a bookseller. At the age of five he had already decided to write. He studied literature from 1968 to 1972 at the École normal supérieure (ENS) in Saint-Cloud ( Département Hauts-de-Seine ); in his thesis he dealt with the life and work of Raymond Queneau .

Then he got a job at Hachette Livre , supervised a. a. the Encyclopædia Universalis and later moved to the publisher Éditions Honoré Champion . Between 1982 and 1989 he worked as an editor at the publishing house Éditions Ramsay and subsequently to Éditions Seghers until 1992 .

Between 1996 and 2000 Fournel headed the Alliance française branch in San Francisco . In the spring of 2000, Minister of Culture Jack Lang sent him to Cairo as a cultural attaché .

While working at the publishing house, Fournel met François Le Lionnais , the founder of the Oulipo authors' association , and joined this group. Since 2003 he has been the 3rd President of Oulipo .

He is married with two children, born in 1979 and 1983.

Honors

• 1988 Prix ​​Fnac / Grand Prix de littérature sportive
• 1989 Prix ​​Goncourt de la nouvelle for Les athlètes dans leur tête .
• 1999 Prix Renaudot des lycéens for the novel Foraine

Works (selection)

• Bibliothèque oulipienne . Oulipo, Paris 2005ff
  • Vol. 138: Les débuts de la colonie . 2005.
  • Vol. 140: La table de nain . 2005.
  • Vol. 147: Les animaux d'amour. Poemes . 2007 (illustrated by Henri Cuéco ).
  • Vol. 151: Romans . 2006.
  • Vol. 152: Chicago . 2006 (with Jacques Roubaud ).
  • Vol. 163: Terines . 2007.

essay

• Besoin de vélo .
  • German translation: The love of the bike . Covadonga Verlag, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-936973-65-5 (translated by Nathalie Mälzer and Stefan Rodecourt).

Poetry

• Térines d'Amérique. Poemes . Paris 2006 (illustrated by Philippe Cognée).

Novels

• Chamboula. Novel . Seuil, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-02-089278-0 .
• Timothée dans l'arbre. Novel . Seuil jeunesse, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-02-057361-X . (illustrated by Emmanuel Pierre).
• À la ville comme à la campagne . Ed. Après la lune, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-35227-015-4 .
• Poils de cairote . Seuil, Fiction & Cie, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-02-058041-1 .

Non-fiction

• Méli Vélo. Dictionnaire cycliste . Seuil, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-02-096627-6 .
• Guignol. Les Mourguet . Éditions lyonnaises d'Art et d'Histoire, Lyon 2008, ISBN 978-2-84147-193-5 .

Plays

• Les mains dans le ventre & foyer jardin . Actes-Sud, Arles 2008, ISBN 978-2-7427-7192-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Paul Fournel in the catalog of the German National Library
• paulfournel.net
• pagesperso-orange.fr