Jean-Noël Pancrazi

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Jean-Noël Pancrazi

Jean-Noël Pancrazi (born April 28, 1949 in Sétif , then a French colony, now Algeria ) is a French writer.

Life

youth

Jean-Noël Pancrazi spent the first ten years of his life in Algeria with his parents and sister. His childhood and the Algerian war shaped his later work.

He came to France in 1962 and attended secondary school in Perpignan , his mother's hometown. After moving to Paris, he prepared for his Abitur at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and then studied literature at the Sorbonne. In 1972 he passed the Agrégation (entrance examination for the upper positions in secondary schools) in modern literature ("lettres modern"). The following year his first work was published, an essay on Stéphane Mallarmé . In the 1970s he worked as a French teacher at a Lycée in Massy .

Literary career

His first novel, La Mémoire brûlée , was published by Éditions du Seuil in 1979. This was followed by Lalibela ou la mort nomade (1981), L'Heure des adieux (1985) and Le Passage des princes (1988). His next work, Les Quartiers d'hiver , was published by Gallimard in 1990 : the action takes place in «le Vagabond», a gay bar in Paris, during the first years of the AIDS epidemic. The novel was awarded the prix Médicis . Pancrazi continued his exploration of nightlife in Le Silence des Passions (1994), for which he received the Prix ​​Valery-Larbaud . In Madame Arnoul (1995) he travels back to his childhood in Algeria, to Batna, at a time when the country is shaken by war. The novel depicts the friendship between a little boy and a neighbor from Alsace, whom the narrator sees as a second mother. He is alleged to be on the side of the Arabs, since she protected an Algerian girl from the attacks of the French military, and she is punished for it in the end. The book won three prizes: the Prix ​​du Livre Inter , the Prix ​​Maurice-Genevoix and the Prix ​​Albert-Camus . The author paid homage to his father, who died in Corsica , in Long séjour (1998, prix Jean Freustié ), and to his mother in Renée Camps (2001). These three books form "a family memory trilogy".

In Tout est passé si vite (2003), awarded the Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française , he drew the portrait of a writer and publisher with whom he is friends and who suffers from cancer.

Stays in Haiti and the Dominican Republic inspired him to write two other novels: Les Dollars des sables (2006) and Montecristi (2009), where he denounced an environmental scandal.

In La Montagne (2012), Jean-Noël Pancrazi confronts a memory that he had kept to himself for a long time: the death of six children who were friends, who were murdered in the mountains during the Algerian war. The text was awarded three prix (prix Méditerranée, prix Marcel-Pagnol and prix François-Mauriac).

In Indétectable , published by Gallimard in 2014, he tells the life of Mady, a man from Mali who has lived in Paris for ten years without a residence permit.

Jean-Noël Pancrazi also wrote Corse (2000) together with Raymond Depardon . For his complete works he has received the grand prize of the Société des gens de lettres (SGDL).

Since 1999 he has been a member of the jury for the prix Renaudot.

In 2013 a documentary about Jean-Noël Pancrazi was made. It is titled Territoires Intimes (by Renaud Donche, France 3 - Corse, September 2013).

Jean-Noël Pancrazi is a holder of the Ordre national du Mérite and the Legion of Honor .

Works

  • Mallarmé , essay, Hatier, 1973
  • La Mémoire brûlée , Roman, Le Seuil, 1979
  • Lalibela ou la mort nomade , Roman, Ramsay, 1981
  • L'Heure des adieux , Roman, Le Seuil, 1985
  • Le Passage des princes , Roman, Ramsay, 1988
  • Les Quartiers d'hiver , Roman, Gallimard, 1990, prix Médicis
  • Le Silence des passions , Roman, Gallimard, 1994, prix Valery-Larbaud, German under the title A tenderness for life. Translated from the French by Claudia Denzler, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-608-93375-1 .
  • Madame Arnoul , Erzählung, Gallimard, 1995, prix Maurice-Genevoix, prix Albert-Camus, prix du Livre Inter, German under the title Madame Arnoul. From the French by Joachim Kalka, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-608-93398-0 .
  • Long séjour , narrative, Gallimard, 1998, prix Jean-Freustié 1998.
  • Corse (Le Seuil, 2000) in collaboration with the photographer Raymond Depardon: texts on Corsica and the author's father (continuation of Long séjour).
  • Renée Camps , short story, Gallimard, 2001
  • Tout est passé si vite , Roman, Gallimard, 2003, grand prix du roman de l'Académie française
  • Les Dollars des sables , Roman, Gallimard, 2006, made as a feature film (2015) by Laura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas, with the American actress Geraldine Chaplin
  • Montecristi , Roman, Gallimard, 2009
  • La Montagne , short story, Gallimard, 2012, prix Marcel-Pagnol, prix Méditerranée, Prix François Mauriac
  • Indétectable , Roman, Gallimard, 2014

Awards

  • Prix ​​Médicis for Les Quartiers d'hiver , Roman, Paris, Gallimard, 1990
  • Prix ​​Valery-Larbaud for Le Silence des passions , Roman, Paris, Gallimard, 1994
  • Prix ​​du Livre Inter, Prix Maurice-Genevoix, and Prix Albert-Camus for Madame Arnoul , Roman, Paris, Gallimard, 1995
  • Prix ​​Jean-Freustié for Long séjour , short story, Paris, Gallimard, 1998
  • Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française for Tout est passé si vite , Roman, Paris, Gallimard, 2003
  • Prix ​​Marcel-Pagnol, Prix Méditerranée, Prix François Mauriac for La Montagne , narrative, Paris, Gallimard, 2012
  • Grand Prix de la Société des Gens de Lettres for the complete works, Paris, 2009
  • Chevalier dans l'Ordre national du Mérite, France, 2006
  • Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur, France, 2013
  • Member of the jury for the Prix ​​Renaudot since 1999

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Madame Arnoul (1995) plays against the backdrop of the war-torn Batna, and La Montagne (2012) tells the story of the murder of six comrades in the Algerian war. Christian Authier, Le Figaro, 22/03/2012: «The readers of Jean-Noël Pancrazi know how strongly his youth in Algeria and his exile have shaped him, as evidenced in particular by the moving novel Madame Arnoul. With La Montagne, he shows a little more clearly the injuries he suffered half a century earlier. ».
  2. ↑ Broadcast Bibliothèque Médicis on Public Sénat from 22/06/2012, presented by Jean-Pierre Elkabbach: «L'Algérie: l'Algérie et nous! », With Jean-Noël Pancrazi.
  3. ↑ The decision to publish the first novel by Jean-Noël Pancrazi was made by François-Régis Bastide .
  4. ↑ http://www.gallimard.fr/Contributeurs/Jean-Noel-Pancrazi [archive].
  5. ↑ "Le prix Médicis consacre le sida comme thème littéraire", Paris Match , December 13, 1990, interview Colette Porlier.
  6. ↑ Jean Chalon, "Médicis: Jean-Noël Pancrazi", Le Figaro , November 27, 1990, p. 36.
  7. ^ Jean-Pierre Tison, "La nostalgie d'une autre Algérie", L'Express , 01/03/1995.
  8. ↑ Interview with JN Pancrazi in Territoires intimes (film by Renaud Donche, shown on France 3 Corse - September 19, 2013).
  9. ↑ Les Dollars des sables was recently filmed with the American actress Geraldine Chaplin in the Dominican Republic. Directed by Laura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas.
  10. ^ France-Info, interview by Philippe Vallet - Le livre du jour, August 13, 2012 La Montagne by Jean-Noël Pancrazi; L'Humanité June 7, 2012 literary column by Jean-Claude Lebrun “De sang et de laine trouée La Montagne , de Jean-Noël Pancrazi”.
  11. ↑ Le Point (28/02/14) "Errances africaines"; La Provence (02/03/2014) - Jérôme Garcin «Jean-Noël Pancrazi ne veut pas oublier Mady».
  12. ↑ Libération 04/24/2000: "La Corse, paysages intérieurs" Annick Peigne-Giuly - (2) Corse. Texts by Jean-Noël Pancrazi. Photographies de Raymond Depardon. Ed du Seuil (2000) - France-culture (16/04/04): Corse, de Jean-Noël Pancrazi et Raymond Depardon.
  13. ^ Page Jean-Noël Pancrazi, sur le site du prix Renaudot [archive].
  14. ↑ The film “Jean-Noël Pancrazi, territoires intimes” (2013) is available on Youtube ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTUmq3Fe7jQ [archive]).
  15. ↑ http://www.liberation.fr/culture/0101241512-le-prix-jean-freustie-a-jean-noel-pancrazi Article de Liberation du 5 mars 1998 [archive].
  16. ^ L'Express / AFP - Pierre Andrieu, le 20/06/2012: "Le prix Méditerranée 2012 à Jean-Noël Pancrazi et Antonio Muñoz Molina".
personal data
SURNAME Pancrazi, Jean-Noël
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Sétif , Algeria