Hervé Le Tellier

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Hervé Le Tellier, Salon du Livre in Paris (2010)

Hervé Le Tellier (born April 21, 1957 in Paris ) is a French writer .

Life

Hervé Le Tellier originally studied maths . He has published around 30 books since the early 1990s, including books of poetry, erotic stories and novels. He also worked for the theater, opera and film. Le Tellier, who lives in Paris, is the president of the Oulipo group , a group of authors who submit their works to formal constraints. He is also a linguist and works as a columnist for the internet edition of the French daily Le Monde . In 2013 he won the Grand Prix de l'humour noir Xavier-Forneret for the volume of poetry allegedly translated from Portuguese, Contes liquides . The original author Jaime Montestrela but is an invention of Le Tellier.

Le Tellier is regarded as a “multiple” author, mostly “small” forms ( novella , fable ), with which he partly experiments, but which he largely develops or further develops himself, such as in his thousand answers to the question: What are you thinking about ? ( Les amnésiques n'ont rien vécu d'inoubliable , 1997) or its hundred variations based on the Mona Lisa ( Joconde jusqu'à cent , 1998). As a friend of Jean-Bernard Pouy , he wrote a pulp crime novel .

Le Tellier was a great success in 2020 with the publication of his novel L'anomalie, set in the near future, with the Gallimard publishing house . The work is an experimental setup in which an airplane flies from Paris to New York with the same occupants every three weeks in the summer of 2021 . This leads to doubles and a wealth of entertaining, individual stories about questions about surveillance, simulation or reality, for example. The characters include a family man and a hit man , a Nigerian pop star, a lawyer who ponders her mistakes and a public-shy writer who achieved a surprise success with the eponymous L'anomalie and which has become a cult book. The novel won the Prix ​​Goncourt in the year of its publication , was shortlisted for the Prix ​​Décembre and was also a great financial success. The book had sold over 25,000 copies by the end of November 2020 and was among the top 10 bestsellers in the fiction category for several weeks . L'anomalie has so far been translated into six languages ​​and will also be filmed as a television series.

Works (selection)

  • Sonates de bar , Le Castor Astral. Drawings by Henri Cueco .
  • Encyclopaedia Inutilis , short stories , 1991, Seghers, rééd. 2000, Le Castor Astral.
  • Le voleur de nostalgie , 1992, epistolary novel , Seghers, rééd. 2005, Le Castor Astral.
  • La disparition de Perek , 1997, Le poulpe , Baleine-Le Seuil .
  • Les amnésiques n'ont rien vécu d'inoubliable , autobiography , 1998, Le Castor Astral.
  • Joconde jusqu'à cent , 1999, Le Castor Astral.
  • Inukshuk , 1999, Le Castor Astral. Videograms by Jean-Baptiste Decavèle
  • Z Indien , 2000, Le Castor Astral. Drawings by Henri Cueco.
  • Encyclopaedia Inutilis, Novellas, 2002, Le Castor Astral.
  • Joconde sur votre indulgence , 2002, Le Castor Astral.
  • Cités de mémoire . Travel report, 2002, Berg International. Drawings by Xavier Gorce .
  • Guerre et Plaies , 2003, Editions Eden. Strips from Xavier Gorce.
  • La chapelle Sextine , 2004, L'Estuaire. Images by Xavier Gorce.
    • The Sextine Chapel . Translation by Jürgen Ritte . Diaphanes Verlag, Berlin 2018
  • Esthétique de l'Oulipo , 2006, Le Castor Astral.
  • Je m'attache très facilement , Roman, 2007, Mille et une nuits.
  • Les opossums célèbres , Portmanteau words , drawings by Xavier Gorce, 2007, Le Castor Astral.
  • Assez parlé d'amour , 2009, Ed. Jean-Claude Lattès.
    • Not a word more about love . Translation by Jürgen and Romy Ritte. dtv, Munich 2011
  • Eléctrico W . Ed. Jean-Claude Lattès, 2011
    • Nine days in Lisbon . Translation by Jürgen and Romy Ritte. dtv, Munich 2013
  • Contes liquides de Jaime Montestrela , Éditions de l'Attente, 2013, Grand Prix de l'Humor Noir.
  • Demande au muet , Editions Nous, 2014.
  • Moi et François Mitterrand , 2016, Editions Jean-Claude Lattes
  • Toutes les familles heureuses , récit, 2017, Éditions Jean-Claude Lattès
    • All the happy families , [autobiographical] novel. Translation by Jürgen and Romy Ritte. dtv, Munich 2018
  • L'anomalie , Éditions Gallimard, 2020, ISBN 978-2-0728-9509-8 .

With oulipo

  • Monkey language, game machines and general rules. Plasma, 1997.
  • Jürgen Ritte (Ed.): To the bone. the cookbook that everyone needs. Arche-Atrium-Verlag, Hamburg 2009.

Awards

  • 2007: Prix du roman d'amour for Je m'attache très facilement
  • 2013: Grand Prix de l'humour noir Xavier-Forneret for Contes liquides (translation from Portuguese by Jaime Montestrela )
  • 2016: Prix Botul for Moi et François Mitterrand
  • 2020: Prix ​​Goncourt for L'anomalie

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Alexiane Guchereau: Sur la route du Goncourt 2020: "L'anomaly" d'Hervé le Tellier . In: livreshebdo.fr, November 26, 2020 (accessed November 31, 2020).
  2. ^ Conversation on this year's Prix Goncourt (podcast) . In: wdr.de, November 30, 2020, 5:45 min ff. (Accessed November 30, 2020).
  3. ↑ Raphaëlle Leyris: Hervé Le Tellier remporte le prix Goncourt pour son roman "L'Anomalie" . In: lemonde.fr, November 30, 2020 (accessed November 30, 2020).
personal data
SURNAME Le Tellier, Hervé
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer and columnist
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris