Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud
Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud (born September 25, 1947 in Paris ) is a French writer.
Life
Châteaureynaud was the son of a loving, but also depressed mother. The parents were divorced. He tells the story of his crisis-ridden childhood in the 2011 autobiography La Vie nous regarde passer . At school he learned Latin and Greek and then studied English, which he also graduated from. As a result, he earned his living with small jobs while working on his texts. During his school days he had met Hubert Haddad , with whom he published several literary magazines.
In 1973 the Grasset publishing house - to which he was to remain loyal - appeared the short story volume Le Fou dans la chaloupe and in the following year Châteaureynaud's first novel Les Messagers , which won the prize of the magazine Les Nouvelles Littéraires . He was a member of the group Nouvelle Fiction around Frédérick Tristan , which in addition to Haddad also included Francis Berthelot , Sylvain Jouty , Marc Petit , François Coupry and Jean Claude Bologne . They took the position that literature should not allow itself to be limited to the description of prosaic reality, but that its task is to present a higher reality and another truth, for whatever purpose it could use elements of the fantastic. Accordingly, Châteaureynaud's works often have fantastic elements where they cannot even be assigned to fantastic literature. Châteaureynaud's contribution to modern French fantasy was documented in particular by being awarded the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire three times , most recently in 2009 for the novel L'Autre rive . The fantastic at Châteaureynaud is primarily nourished by dreams and the dreamy, the author expressly rejects everything gruesome and bloodthirsty.
From 2000 to 2002 he was chairman of the Société des Gens de Lettres . His works have been translated into several languages, particularly English, where A Life on Paper , a compilation of his stories translated by Edward Gauvin, won the 2011 Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Award . The novel La Faculté des songes (as The Faculty of Dreams ) and a volume of short stories ( La Belle Charbonnière as Die Schöne Köhlerin and other black stories ) have been translated into German.
Awards
- 1982 Prix Renaudot for the novel La Faculté des songes
- 1988 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire , special prize for Le Combat d'Odiri
- 1994 Prix Breizh for the novel Le Château de verre
- 1996 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for the story Quiconque
- 2005 Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle for the story Singe savant tabassé par deux clowns
- 2009 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for the novel L'Autre rive
bibliography
Novels and short stories
The list below contains novels and stories and short stories that have been published individually.
- Les Messagers (1974, novel)
- Mathieu Chain (1978, novel)
- La Faculté des songes (1982, novel)
- German: The Faculty of Dreams. Translated by Bettina Runge. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-608-95256-X .
- Le Congrès de fantomologie (1985, novel)
- Le Combat d'Odiri (1991, book for young people)
- Le Château de verre (1994, novel)
- Les Ormeaux (1996, short story)
- Civils de plomb (1998, short story)
- La Conquête du Pérou (1999, short story)
- Le Démon à la crécelle (1999, novel)
- Les Amants sous verre (2002, short story)
- Au fond du paradis (2003, novel)
- L'Ange et les démons (2004, book for young people)
- Les Intermittences d'Icare (2006, short story)
- L'Autre rive (2007, novel)
- Le Corps de l'autre (2010, novel)
- Jeune vieillard assis sur une pierre en bois (2013, novel)
Collections
- Le Fou dans la Chaloupe (1973)
- Ses dernières pages
- Après
- Là-bas dans le sud
- La Belle Charbonnière (1976)
- German: The beautiful Köhlerin and other black stories. Translated by Bettina Runge. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-608-95255-1 .
- Un episode obscur
- Les Paons
- Un citoyen nous parle
- La Belle Charbonnière
- L'Habitant de deux villes
- Dernier amour
- Paradiso
- Magnus
- Ténèbres
- Newton go home!
- Le Héros blessé au bras (1987)
- Le Voyage des âmes
- Le Verger
- Mer belle à peu agitée
- Le Gouffre des années
- La Chambre sur l'abîme
- Le Petit Homme d'or
- La Ville aux mille musées
- Le Héros blessé au bras
- Essuie mon front, Lily Miracle!
- Le Marché aux esclaves
- Trois autres jeunes tambours
- Underman
- Sortez de vos cachettes
- La demeure de l'amour est vaste
- Le Jeune Homme au saxophone
- Le Jardin dans l'île (1989)
- La Nuit des voltigeurs
- Histoire du pâle petit jeune homme
- Château Naguère
- Le Courtier Delaunay
- Le Jardin dans l'île
- L'inhabitable
- Figure humaine
- L'Enclos
- L'Importun
- Zinzolins et Nacarats
- Le Kiosque et le Tilleul (1993)
- La femme dans l'ombre
- Une vie paper
- Un Royaume près de la mer
- Rêveur de fond
- Le Kiosque et le Tilleul
- Icare sauvé des cieux
- La Chaussée d'antan
- L'Homme de Blida ou Le Malheur ridicule
- La Succession Denham
- La Tete
- Iris et le pensionnaire
- Le Joueur de dulceola
- Le Seul Mortel
- Nouvelles 1972–1988 (1993)
Contains the four collections Le Fou dans la chaloupe , La Belle Charbonnière , Le Héros blessé au bras and Le Jardin dans l'île , published during this period .
- Le Goût de l'ombre (1997)
- Le Styx
- La cicatrice in la chevelure
- Quiconque
- La Libraire d'Éparvay
- L'Écolier de bronze
- Le scarabée de coeur
- Les Vraies Richesses
- Le Chef-d'œuvre de Guardicci
- L'Autre Histoire
- tombola
- Singe savant tabassé par deux clowns (2005)
- La Seule Mortelle
- Les Ormeaux
- Civils de plomb
- La sensationnelle attraction
- In the cité venteuse
- Courir sous l'orage
- Les Sœurs Ténèbre
- Tigres adultes et petits chiens
- Écorcheville
- Sing savant tabassé par deux clowns
- La rue douce
- Le Verger et autres nouvelles (2005)
- Le Verger
- Le Gouffre des années
- La Belle Charbonnière
- Paradiso
- Mécomptes cruels (2006)
- Elles deux
- L'Excursion
- Parfaits inconnus
- J'arrête quand je veux
- Tac ... tac
- De l'autre coté d'Alice (2007)
- De l'autre côté d'Alice
- Angus Lamb
- Epinoche et Smadjo
- Résidence dernière (2011)
- Montreur de sphinx
- Les Miroirs ferment times
- Résidence dernière
Others
- La Fortune (1979; contains various texts, poems, essays and the short story Le Dernier Défenseur )
- Une petite histoire de la Société des gens de lettres de France (1994)
- La Vie nous regarde passer (2011, autobiography)
literature
- Christine Bini: Le Marbre et la Brume: L'Univers littéraire de Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud. Alphée, Monaco 2010, ISBN 978-2-7538-0549-1 .
Web links
- Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Literature by and about Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud in the catalog of the German National Library
- Georges-Olivier Chateaureynaud on nooSFere.org (French)
- Eparvay , official site
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Short biography on Georges-Olivier Chateaureynaud's website , accessed April 10, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Châteaureynaud, Georges-Olivier |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |