Paul Fournel
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)
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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
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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
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Fournel, Paul |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1947 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Etienne |