Jean-Christophe Grangé

Jean-Christophe Grangé at a reading in Münster on November 3, 2009

Jean-Christophe Grangé (born July 15, 1961 in Paris ) is a French writer and freelance journalist .

life and work

Grangé has been writing for the Série Noire on French television since 1989 and for various international newspapers such as Der Spiegel and the Sunday Times . His breakthrough as a writer was already with his first novel The Flight of the Storks . His novels have been translated into more than 20 languages ​​and sold over 500,000 times. Some of his novels have also been made into films.

Grangé also works as a screenwriter and wrote the screenplay for the film Vidocq in 2001 .

Private

Jean-Christophe Grangé is married and has three children.

Works

Novels

• The flight of the storks . Ehrenwirth 1996 / Bastei Lübbe 1997, ISBN 978-3-404-13901-9 (Original title: Le Vol des cigognes. 1994.) Translated from Barbara Schaden
• The purple rivers . Ehrenwirth 1998 / Bastei Lübbe 2000, ISBN 978-3-404-14403-7 (original title: Les Rivières pourpres. 1998. Translated by Barbara Schaden).
• The stone circle. Ehrenwirth 2002 / Bastei Lübbe 2003, ISBN 978-3-404-15072-4 (original title: Le Concile de pierre. 2000. Translated by Barbara Schaden).
• The Empire of the Wolves. Ehrenwirth 2004 / Bastei-Lübbe 2005, ISBN 978-3-404-15411-1 (Original title: L'Empire des loups. 2003. Translated by Christiane Landgrebe).
• The black blood . Ehrenwirth 2006 / Bastei Lübbe 2008, ISBN 978-3-404-15808-9 (Original title: La Ligne noire. 2004. Translated by Barbara Schaden).
• The heart of hell. Ehrenwirth 2007 / Bastei Lübbe 2009, ISBN 978-3-404-16284-0 (Original title: Le Serment des limbes. 2007. Translated by Thorsten Schmidt).
• Chant of death. Ehrenwirth 2009 / Bastei Lübbe 2011, ISBN 978-3-404-16039-6 (Original title: Miserere. 2008. Translated by Thorsten Schmidt).
• In the forest of silent screams. Ehrenwirth 2011 / Bastei Lübbe 2013, ISBN 978-3-404-16772-2 (Original title: La Forêt des Manês. 2009. Translated by Thorsten Schmidt).
• The origin of evil. Ehrenwirth 2012 / Bastei Lübbe 2014, ISBN 978-3-404-16905-4 (Original title: Le Passager. 2011. Translated by Ulrike Werner-Richter).
• The truth of the blood. Ehrenwirth 2013 / Bastei Lübbe 2014, ISBN 978-3-404-17092-0 (Original title: Kaïken. 2012. Translated by Ulrike Werner-Richter).
• Crimson vengeance . Bastei Lübbe (Lübbe Ehrenwirth) 2016, ISBN 978-3-431-03964-1 (Original title: Lontano . 2015. Translated by Ulrike Werner-Richter).
• Black Requiem. Bastei Lübbe (Lübbe Ehrenwirth) 2018, ISBN 978-3-431-04081-4 (Original title: Congo requiem . 2016. Translated by Ulrike Werner-Richter).
• The fetters of evil. Ehrenwirth 2020, ISBN 978-3-431-04129-3 (Original title: La Terre des Morts , 2018. Translated by Ulrike Werner-Richter).

Scripts

• The purple rivers . F 2000, directed by Mathieu Kassovitz , 1 h 46 min, FSK 16 (with Jean Reno , Vincent Cassel , Nadia Farès and others).
• Vidocq . F 2001, director: Pitof , 1 h 38 min, FSK 16 (with Gérard Depardieu , Guillaume Canet , Inés Sastre and others).
• The Empire of the Wolves . F 2005, directed by Chris Nahon, 2 h 3 min, FSK 16 (with Jean Reno, Arly Jover , Jocelyn Quivrin and others).
• Switch - A murderous exchange . F 2011, director: Frédéric Schœndœrffer , 1 h 44 min, FSK 16 (with Karine Vanasse , Karina Testa , Éric Cantona and others).
• Le Passager. F 2014 (TV series, 6 episodes, based on his own novel, for France 2 )

Adaptations

Movies

• The purple rivers. (see works / scripts)
• The Empire of the Wolves. (see works / scripts)
• Liu San - Guardian of Life. F / I / D 2006, director: Guillaume Nicloux , 1 h 42 min, FSK 16 (with Monica Bellucci , Catherine Deneuve , Moritz Bleibtreu and others).
• The flight of the storks. F / ZA / D 2012, director: Jan Kounen , 2 h 4 min, FSK 16 (with Harry Treadaway , Perdita Weeks , Rutger Hauer and others).
• Miserere. F / B 2013, director: Sylvain White , 1 h 46 min, FSK 16 (with Gérard Depardieu, Joeystarr , Rüdiger Vogler and others).

Audio books

• The purple rivers. Lübbe Audio 2004, read by Joachim Kerzel , 6 CDs, 6 h 58 min, ISBN 978-3-404-77076-2 .
• The black blood. Lübbe Audio 2006, read by Joachim Kerzel, 6 CDs, 7 h 26 min, ISBN 978-3-7857-3126-0 .
• The heart of hell. Lübbe Audio 2007, read by Joachim Kerzel, 6 CDs, 7 h 53 min, ISBN 978-3-7857-3390-5 .
• The flight of the storks. Lübbe Audio 2007, read by Joachim Kerzel, 6 CDs, 7 h 5 min, ISBN 978-3-404-77191-2 .
• The stone circle. Lübbe Audio 2008, read by Tanja Geke , 6 CDs, 7 h 36 min, ISBN 978-3-404-77321-3 .
• The Empire of the Wolves. Lübbe Audio 2008, read by Joachim Kerzel, 6 CDs, 7 h 35 min, ISBN 978-3-7857-3525-1 .
• Chant of death. Lübbe Audio 2009, read by Wolfgang Pampel , 6 CDs, 7 h 16 min, ISBN 978-3-7857-4151-1 .
• In the forest of silent screams. Lübbe Audio 2011, read by Andrea Sawatzki , 6 CDs, 7 h 39 min, ISBN 978-3-7857-4467-3 .
• The origin of evil. Lübbe Audio 2012, read by Dietmar Wunder and Nicole Engeln, 8 CDs, 9 h 9 min, ISBN 978-3-7857-4601-1 .
  • also available unabridged as download, read by Dietmar Wunder, 21 h 21 min.
• The truth of the blood. Lübbe Audio 2013, read by Martin Keßler , 6 CDs, 6 h 22 min, ISBN 978-3-7857-4790-2 .
  • also available as a full download, read by Dietmar Wunder, 13 h 12 min.
• Crimson vengeance. Lübbe Audio 2016 , read by Reiner Schöne, 12 CDs, 12 h 45 min, ISBN 978-3-7857-5336-1 .
• Black Requiem. Lübbe Audio 2018 , read by Dietmar Wunder, 12 CDs, 3 p.m., ISBN 978-3-7857-5660-7 .

See also

• Roman noir

Web links

Commons : Jean-Christophe Grangé  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Jean-Christophe Grangé in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jean-Christophe Grangé in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Short biography and reviews of works by Jean-Christophe Grangé at perlentaucher.de
• Biography and catalog raisonné of Grangé
• Author's website

notes

1. ^ Damage in the translator database of the VdÜ , 2019