Hubert Haddad

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Hubert Abraham Haddad , born March 10, 1947 in Tunis , is a French writer , playwright , essayist and painter who has won several prizes and awards for his work. Haddad is close to Surrealism and has so far published 22 novels, 13 essays, 10 volumes of poetry and five plays.

Life and oeuvre

Haddad was born in Tunis to a Tunisian trader and showman and a mentally unstable Algerian mother. His parents emigrated to France in the 1950s when he was five years old and he spent much of his youth in the Parisian banlieues , where he had similar experiences as an immigrant from North Africa. It was not until 2005 that he dealt with the fate of his mother and the problems of the family against the backdrop of the Algerian War in the autobiographical childhood story Le Camp du bandit mauresque ( The camp of the Moorish bandit ). As a young adult, he became interested in contemporary poetry and surrealism . So he founded a surrealist magazine called Le Point d'être . In 1967 his first volume of poetry was published with the title Le Charnier déductif ( Charnier means an ossuary ). Novels, short stories, essays and articles on art, literature and dance followed. Haddad is also active as a painter and illustrator and is represented in exhibitions. Since the 1970s, he has taught creative writing in workshops at universities, schools, hospitals and prisons. Some of his works have been translated into German. Haddad's works are published by various French publishers and editions, including Zulma , Albin Michel , Fayard , Bernard Dumerchez and Folio (Gallimard) .

Honourings and prices

Haddad has received several awards for his work, including:

  • 1933 Prix Georges Bernanos for Les Effrois
  • 1991 Prix Maupassant for Le Secret de l'immortalité
  • 1998 Grand Prix du roman de la SGDL (Société des gens de lettres de France) for La Condition magique
  • 2008 Prix des cinq continents de la francophonie for Palestine
  • 2009 Prix ​​Renaudot Poche also for Palestine
  • 2013 Prix Louis-Guilloux for Le Peintre d'éventail
  • 2013 Grand prix de littérature de la SGDL for his complete works
  • 2014 Prix ​​Mallarmé for La Verseuse du matin

Works (selection)

Novels and short stories
  • Un rêve de glace (1974, republished in 2006)
  • La Cène (1975, new 2010)
  • Les Grands Pays muets (1978)
  • Armelle ou l'éternel retour (1979, new 1989)
  • Les Derniers Jours d'un homme heureux (1980)
  • Les Effrois (1983)
  • La Ville sans miroir (1984)
  • Perdus dans un profond sommeil (1986)
  • Le Visiteur aux gants de soie (1988)
  • Oholiba des songes (La Table Ronde) , (1989, new 2007)
  • L'Âme de Buridan (1992, new 2000)
  • Le Chevalier Alouette (1992, new 2001)
  • Meurtre sur l'île des marins fidèles (1994)
  • Le Bleu du temps (1995, new 2018)
  • La Condition magique (1997, new 2014)
  • L'Univers, roman dictionnaire (1999 and 2009, paperback 2003)
  • La Vitesse de la Lumière (2001)
  • Le Ventriloque amoureux (2003)
  • La Double Conversion d'Al-Mostancir (2003)
  • La Culture de l'hystérie n'est pas une spécialité horticole (2004)
  • Le camp du bandit mauresque, récit d'enfance (2005)
  • Palestine (2007, new 2009 and 2015)
  • Géométrie d'un rêve (2009, new 2011)
  • Opium Poppy (2011, new 2013)
  • Le Peintre d'éventail (2013, new 2014)
  • Théorie de la vilaine petite fille (2014, new 2016)
  • Corps desirable (2015, new 2018)
  • Mā (2015)
  • Les Coïncidences exagérées (Traits et portraits) (2016)
  • Premières neiges sur Pondichéry (Éditions Zulma, 2017)
  • Casting sauvage (2018)
 Novellas
  • La Rose de Damoclès (1982)
  • Le Secret de l'immortalité (1991, republished in 2003)
  • L'Ami Argentina (1994)
  • La Falaise de sable (1997)
  • Mirabilia (1999)
  • La Belle Rémoise (2001, new 2004)
  • Quelque part dans la voie lactée (2002)
  • Vent printanier (2010)
  • Nouvelles du jour et de la nuit: le jour; Nouvelles du jour et de la nuit: la nuit (2011)
  • La Bohémienne endormie (2012)
  • Geography des nuages (2016)

Plays

  • Kronos et les marionnettes (1992)
  • Tout un printemps rempli de jacinthes (1994)
  • Visite au musée du temps (1996)
  • Le Rat et le Cygne (1995)

Volumes of poetry

  • Le Charnier déductif (1967)
  • Clair venin du temps (1992)
  • Crânes et Jardins (1994)
  • Les Larmes d'Héraclite (1996)
  • Le Testament de Narcisse (1998)
  • Une rumeur d'immortalité (2000)
  • Petits sortilèges des amants (2001)
  • Le Regard et l'Obstacle, sur les dessins d'Eugène Van Lamswerde (2001)
  • Errabunda ou les proses de la nuit (2011)
  • Oxyde de réduction (2008)
  • Les Haïkus du peintre d'éventail (together with the novel Le Peintre d'éventail , 2013)
  • Table des neiges, circa 1924 (2014)
  • La Verseuse du matin (2014)
  • L'Êcre et l'étrit (2016)

literature

  • Hubert Haddad, Laurent Flieder: Hubert Haddad . In: Brèves, anthologie permanente de la nouvelle . No. 97 . Brèves, 2011, ISSN  0248-4625 , OCLC 801096201 (author portrait).
  • Dinah Assouline Stillman: Haddad, Hubert Abraham . In: Norman A. Stillman (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World . Brill, Leiden September 3, 2014, doi : 10.1163 / 1878-9781_ejiw_sim_000702 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dinah Assouline Stillman: Haddad, Hubert Abraham . In: Norman A. Stillman (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World . Brill, Leiden September 3, 2014, doi : 10.1163 / 1878-9781_ejiw_sim_000702 (English): “Hubert Abraham Haddad… was born in Tunis on March 10, 1947”
  2. ^ Website of Edition Nautilus with biographical information.
  3. ^ Website of the British publisher And Other Stories
  4. ^ Website of the Maison des écrivains et de la littérature
personal data
SURNAME Haddad, Hubert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haddad, Hubert Abraham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer, playwright, essayist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Tunis