Jérôme Leroy (writer)

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Jérôme Leroy (2018)

Jérôme Leroy (born August 29, 1964 in Rouen ) is a French writer . He writes novels , short stories , poetry , essays , youth books and screenplays . His first work to be published in German is the detective novel Der Block .

life and work

Jérôme Leroy was a teacher at a ZEP (Zone d'éducation prioritaire) in the northern French city of Roubaix for 20 years . After giving up the teaching profession, he devoted himself entirely to writing. He wrote his first novel L'Orange de Malte in 1990 during his military service. He was still strongly autobiographical . He later moved from auto-fiction to alter-fiction, stories about a possible self with a different story and different experiences. Through his friendship with the writer Frédéric H. Fajardie , he got to know the Néo-Polar , a movement within French crime fiction that is influenced by Dashiell Hammett's American storytelling tradition and - as Leroy puts it in the epilogue to his novel The Block - “a contemporary one Form of historiography ", which stands for a" politically left orientation ". Since then, many of his publications have been attributed to the novel noir , in which he can combine social criticism with literary experiments.

Nevertheless, Leroy's diverse works cannot be summarized under one catchphrase. In addition to detective novels, he also writes books for young people (the 2013 young adult novel Norlande , in which he dealt with the attacks in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik in 2011 , received numerous awards ) and poetry (his volume of poetry Un dernier verre en Atlantide received the 2011 Prix Maïse Ploquin-Caunan of the Académie française ). Leroy writes for the magazines Causeur and Liberté Hebdo as well as for his blog Feu sur le quartier général! The 2011 novel Le Bloc about the seizure of power by a fictional right-wing extremist party was read in France as a key novel on the Front National . In 2017, Edition Nautilus published the German translation by Cornelia Wend, which reached 3rd place in the German Crime Prize 2018. Based on the scenario of the novel, but with an independent plot about a young social worker who is being built up as the party's top candidate, the French feature film Chez nous by Lucas Belvaux , which premiered in 2017, was made , and Leroy worked on the script.

Leroy lives and works in Lille .

Works

Novels

  • 1990: L'Orange de Malte (Rocher)
  • 1994: Le Cimetière des plaisirs (Rocher)
  • 1997: Monnaie bleue (Rocher)
  • 2000: Big sister (Librio)
  • 2002: Bref rapport sur une très fugitive beauté (Les Belles Lettres)
  • 2004: Le Cadavre du jeune homme dans les fleurs rouges (Rocher)
  • 2008: La Minute prescrite pour l'assaut (Mille et une nuits)
  • 2009: En harmonie (Equateurs)
  • 2009: À vos Marx, prêts, partez! (Editions Baleine)
  • 2011: Le Bloc (Gallimard)
    • German: The block . Translated from the French by Cornelia Wend. Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-96054-037-3 .
  • 2014: L'Ange gardien (Gallimard)
    • German: The Guardian Angel . Translated from the French by Cornelia Wend. Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-96054-224-7 .
  • 2015: Jugan (La Table ronde)
  • 2017: Un peu tard dans la Saison (La Table Ronde)
    • German: The darkened . Translated from the French by Cornelia Wend. Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-96054-083-0 .
  • 2018: La Petite Gauloise (La Manufacture de livres)

Youth books

  • 2006: La Princesse et le Viking (Syros)
  • 2007: La Grande Môme (Syros)
  • 2013: Norlande (Syros)
  • 2016: Macha ou l'évasion (Syros)
  • 2018: Les filles de la pluie (Syros)

Short stories

  • 1996: Requiem en Pays d'Auge (Rocher)
  • 1996: Départementales (Rocher)
  • 1999: Une si douce apocalypse (Les Belles Lettres)
  • 1999: La Grâce efficace (Manitoba / Les Belles Lettres)
  • 2003: Travaux pratiques, La Grâce efficace, Une si douce apocalypse (Les Belles Lettres).
  • 2004: Quelque chose de merveilleux (Rocher)
  • 2005: Rendez-vous rue de la Monnaie (Autrement)
  • 2006: Rêves de cristal. Arques, 2064 (Mille et une nuits)
  • 2007: Comme un fauteuil Voltaire dans une bibliothèque en ruines (Mille et une nuits)
  • 2013: Dernières nouvelles de l'enfer (L'Archipel)
  • 2015: Les jours d'après, contes noirs (La Table ronde)

Poetry

  • 2006: Le Déclenchement muet des opérations cannibales (Equateurs)
  • 2010: Un dernier verre en Atlantide (La Table ronde)
  • 2015: Sauf dans les chansons (La Table ronde)

Essays

  • 1994: Frédéric H. Fajardie (Rocher)
  • 2010: Physiologie des lunettes noires (Mille et une nuits)
  • 2010: Le Dictionnaire des personnages populaires de la littérature des XIXe et XXe siècles (Seuil). Edited by Stéfanie Delestré and Hagar Desanti.
  • 2016: Loin devant! (L'Editeur)

Scripts

Awards

  • 1990: Prix du Quartier Latin for L'Orange de Malte
  • 2008: Prix du polar Jeunesse for La Grande Môme
  • 2011: Prix Maïse Ploquin-Caunan of the Académie française for Un dernier verre en Atlantide
  • 2012: Prix Michel-Lebrun for Le Bloc
  • 2013: Prix des Collégiens du Doubs for Norlande
  • 2013–2014: Prix NRP de littérature jeunesse for Norlande
  • 2014: Prix littéraire des Maisons Familiales Rurales du Maine-et-Loire for Norlande
  • 2014: Prix Jean-Claude Izzo for Norlande
  • 2014: Prix spécial du jury des collégiens Livre-Franche for Norlande
  • 2015: Prix des lecteurs Quais du polar / 20 minutes for L'Ange gardien
  • 2017: Prix Rive Gauche à Paris for Un peu tard dans la Saison
  • 2018: German Crime Prize , 3rd place in the international category for Der Block

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Jean-Claude Raspiengeas: Jérôme Leroy, franc-tireur mélancolique . In: La Croix of January 19, 2017.
  2. ↑ Jérôme Leroy at Edition Nautilus .
  3. ↑ Jérôme Leroy: A novel about the extreme right or the risks of the profession . Epilogue in: The Block . Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-96054-038-0 , without page numbers.
  4. ↑ Rencontre avec Jérôme Leroy - last September 25th . At the Parti communiste français , September 25, 2014.
  5. ↑ Feu sur le quartier général! - Jérôme Leroy's blog .
  6. ↑ Alex Rühle: Language of Violence . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of April 3, 2017.
  7. ↑ 34th German Crime Prize 2018 at krimilexikon.de.
  8. ↑ Annabelle Hirsch, Peter Körte: A nightmare comes true . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of March 5, 2017.
  9. ↑ L'Orange de Malte, de Jérôme Leroy at the Editions La Thébaïde .
  10. ↑ Discours sur les prix littéraires 2011 . On the Académie française website , December 1, 2011.
  11. ↑ Le Bloc at the Editions Gallimard .
  12. ^ Interview de Jérôme Leroy pour son livre «Norlande» . At NRP College , March 1st, 2015.
  13. ↑ Claude Combet: Jérôme Leroy remporte le prix des lecteurs Quays of polar / 20 minutes . In: Livres Hebdo , March 29, 2015.
  14. ^ Laurence Biava: Prix ​​Rive Gauche à Paris catégorie roman français . In: Livres Hebdo , July 3, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Leroy, Jerome
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Rouen