Jean-Baptiste Del Amo

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Jean-Baptiste Del Amo (2014)

Jean-Baptiste Del Amo (born Jean-Baptiste Garcia on November 25, 1981 in Toulouse ) is a French writer.

Life

Jean-Baptiste Garcia grew up in Fontenilles . After graduating, he worked for an AIDS relief organization in Africa for a few months . He wrote the short story Ne rien faire about it , which he published under the pseudonym Del Amo, the name of his grandmother. His first novel Education was published in 2008 and was awarded the Prix ​​Goncourt du premier roman and other prizes in 2009.

In 2010/11 Del Amo received a scholarship from the Villa Médicis of the Académie de France à Rome , and in 2015 he was a guest at Villa Kujoyama . Del Amo is committed to the goals of the animal welfare organization L214 éthique & animaux .

Works (selection)

  • Ne rien faire et autres nouvelles . Buchet-Chastel, 2006 ISBN 978-2-2830-2278-8
  • Une éducation libertine . Gallimard, 2008
    • The upbringing . Translated by Lis Künzli. btb, Munich 2013
  • Le sel . Gallimard, 2010
    • The salt. Novel . Translated by Lis Künzli. btb, Munich 2014
  • Hervé Guibert , photographe , éditions Gallimard, 2010 ISBN 2070132552
    • Hervé Guibert: Photographs . With a text by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo. Translated by Sophia Marzolff. Schirmer Mosel, Munich 2011
  • Pornography . Gallimard, 2013
  • Règne animal . 2016
    • Animal kingdom. Novel . Translated by Karin Uttendörfer. Matthes & Seitz , Berlin 2019
  • L214, une voix pour les animaux . Arthaud, 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, un Toulousain en lice pour le Goncourt , in: Le Journal toulousain, April 20, 2014
  2. ↑ The translation was nominated for the 2019 Leipzig Book Fair Prize
personal data
SURNAME Del Amo, Jean-Baptiste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garcia, Jean-Baptiste (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Toulouse