Grégoire Delacourt

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Grégoire Delacourt (2014)

Grégoire Delacourt (born July 26, 1960 in Valenciennes , France ) is a French publicist , writer , film director and screenwriter .

Life

Grégoire Delacourt attended the La Providence Jesuit school in Amiens . After completing his bachelor's degree in Lille , he studied law in Grenoble . He works in the advertising industry and founded an advertising agency with his wife Dana Philp in 2004. He has worked for well-known brands such as Taittinger and Unilever , among others .

Delacourt was already writing poetry at the age of 18 and published his first pieces in Le Monde in 1978 . During his time in his advertising agency, he wrote and directed a feature film with Préférence , which was released on June 17, 1998 in French cinemas.

Delacourt made his debut as a writer with L'Écrivain de la famille in 2011. The novel sold over 20,000 copies and Delacourt was awarded several literary prizes, including the Prix ​​Marcel Pagnol and the Prix ​​Rive Gauche à Paris .

His second novel, La Liste de mes envies , was published in 2012 and tells the story of a married mother who, after a severe blow of fate, suddenly wins over 18 million euros in the lottery and hesitates to risk the happiness she has just won. In the same year the novel appeared under the title All my wishes in a translation by Claudia Steinitz by Verlag Hoffmann und Campe . The novel has sold over 400,000 copies in France alone. The rights have so far been sold in 27 countries. After Mikaël Chirinian adapted the story for the theater on January 23, 2013, filming began for the filming on April 15, 2013. Directed by Didier Le Pêcheur be Mathilde Seigner and Marc Lavoine play the leading role.

Delacourt's third novel La première chose qu'on regarde was published in 2013. It is the story of a love affair between a mechanic and a young woman in a French village. Both look confusingly similar in the story to actors Ryan Gosling and Scarlett Johansson . When he came back to France on June 5, 2013 from a reading tour for Alle mein Wünsche from Germany, he learned that Johansson had filed a lawsuit against his publisher JC Lattès for "violation and fraudulent use of your personal rights" . She demanded compensation and the ban on further sales of rights.

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  • L'écrivain de la famille (2011)
  • La liste de mes envies (2012)
    • All of my wishes . Novel. Translated by Claudia Steinitz. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2012. ISBN 978-3-455-40384-8
    • Excerpt (beginning of the novel), transl. Susanne Röckel , in Olga Mannheimer Hg .: Blau Weiß Rot. France told. dtv, Munich 2017 ISBN 3423261528 pp. 222–226
  • La première chose qu'on regarde (2013)
    • In the first moment , in German from Claudia Steinitz. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2014. ISBN 978-3-455-60001-8
  • On ne voyait que le bonheur (2014)
    • We only saw happiness. translated by Claudia Steinitz. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2015. ISBN 978-3-455-60021-6
  • Les quatres seasons de l'été (2015)
    • The four seasons of summer , translated by Claudia Steinitz. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2016. ISBN 978-3-455-60041-4
  • Danser au bord de l'abîme (2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pierre Vasseur: “De la pub au best-seller”, Le Parisien, no 21313, 19. March 2013, page 44.
  2. ↑ a b Grégoire Delacourt: interview pour La première chose qu'on regarde , mandor.fr
  3. ↑ LANGUEDOC-ROUSSILLON: “La liste de mes envies” de Grégoire Delacourt, Prix Méditerranée des Lycéens 2013 , ouillade.eu
  4. ^ Grégoire Delacourt: "Je suis stupéfait de la réaction de Scarlett Johansson" , lefigaro.fr
  5. ↑ Personal rights: Scarlett Johansson is suing French book publisher , spiegel.de
personal data
SURNAME Delacourt, Grégoire
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French publicist, writer, film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Valenciennes , France