Jean Rouaud

Jean Rouaud (born December 13, 1952 in Campbon near Nantes ) is a French writer .

He lives in Campbon . His own family history is at the center of his works.

Works

Übers. Carina von Enzenberg , Hartmut Zahn: The fields of honor . Novel. Piper, 1993
Transl. Carina von Enzenberg, Hartmut Zahn: Hadrian's villa in our garden . Novel. Piper, 1994 (Des hommes illustres)
Übers. Carina von Enzenberg, Hartmut Zahn: The approximate world . Novel. Piper, 1997
Translator Josef Winiger: The china shop . Novel. Piper, 2000 ISBN 3-492-04114-0
Übers. Josef Winiger : My old lovers . Novel. Piper, 2002 ISBN 3-492-27031-X
Translated by Elsbeth Ranke: Writing means making every word sound. A creed. SchirmerGraf, 2004 ISBN 3-86555-012-6
Translator Giò Waeckerlin-Induni: The Stone Age Circus . Piper, 1999

Prix Goncourt (1990) for The Fields of Honor ( Les Champs d'honneur )
André Gide Prize (2004) for La désincarnation and its translator Elsbeth Ranke (udT writing means making every word sound )

Corinna Dehne: The "place of memory" novel. On the literaryization of family memory and contemporary history in Jean Rouaud's work. Erich Schmidt, Berlin 2002 ISBN 978-3-503-06148-8
Jan-Pieter Barbian: Jean Rouaud. in dsb. (Red.): Vive la littérature! French literature in German translation. Edited and published by Duisburg City Library . ISBN 9783892796565 , p. 32f with ill.
Simona Jisa: Tekhné Optiké or glasses at Jean Rouaud - Tekhné Optiké ou les lunettes chez Jean Rouaud, in Raluca Hergheligiu Ed .: Études à la loupe. Optical instruments and literature. Parthenon, Mehlingen 2018 ISBN 3942994186 pp. 215 - 222 (bilingual German-French)