Maylis de Kerangal
Maylis de Kerangal (born June 16, 1967 in Toulon ) is a French writer .
biography
Childhood and youth
The daughter and granddaughter of captains on long journeys spent her childhood in Le Havre . From 1985 to 1990 she studied history, philosophy and ethnology. She started working at Gallimard-jeunesse for the first time from 1991 to 1996 before two stays in the United States in Golden , Colorado in 1997. She continued her education for a year in 1998 at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris .
Career as a writer
Her first novel, Je marche sous un ciel de traîne , was published in 2000, followed by La Vie voyageuse in 2003 and Ni fleurs, ni couronnes in 2006 and Corniche Kennedy in 2008 . In 2008 this novel was up for grabs for several literary prizes such as the Prix Médicis or the Prix Femina .
At the same time, she created the Éditions du Baron Perché, intended for young people, on which she worked from 2004 to 2008 before reverting to writing. She also took part in the Revue Inculte.
On November 3, 2010, she was unanimously awarded the Prix Médicis for her novel Naissance d'un pont . In the same year the book was selected for the Prix Femina , the Prix Goncourt , and the Prix de Flore . In December 2010 she received the Franz Hessel Prize together with Kathrin Röggla . With Naissance d'un pont she had succeeded in “composing a novel in a multi-layered, dramatic narrative that is stirring and impressive”. The Italian version of the book was awarded the Premio Gregor von Rezzori in 2014.
She also received several awards for the following novel Réparer les vivants (German title: Repairing the Living ). The 24-hour story of a young, brain-dead man whose heart is being transplanted into the breast of a 51-year-old woman won her the Grand prix RTL-Lire, the novel des étudiants - France Culture-Télérama, the Prix in France in 2014 Orange du Livre, the Prix des lecteurs de L'Express - BFM TV and the Prix Relay. A film adaptation of the novel of the same name, directed by Katell Quillévéré and starring Tahar Rahim and Emmanuelle Seigner , was also released in 2016. The English translation of Mend the Living made it onto the longlist of the Man Booker International Prize that same year .
bibliography
- Novels, short stories
- Je marche sous un ciel de traîne . Éditions Verticales, Paris 2000, ISBN 978-2-84335-064-1
- La voyageuse . Éditions Verticales, Paris 2003, ISBN 978-2-84335-161-7
- La rue , Editions Pierre Terrail, Coll. "2000 ans d'images", Paris 2005, ISBN 978-2-87939-293-6
- Ni fleurs ni couronnes . Éditions Verticales, Paris 2006, ISBN 978-2-07-077720-4
- Dans les rapides . Editions Naïve, Coll. “Naïve sessions”, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-35021-086-5
- Corniche Kennedy . Éditions Verticales, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-07-012219-6
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Naissance d'un pont . Éditions Verticales, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-07-013050-4 (awarded the Prix Médicis 2010)
- German by Andrea Spingler : The bridge from Coca . Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-42292-2
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Réparer les vivants . Éditions Verticales, Paris 2014, ISBN 978-2-07-046236-0
- German by Andrea Spingler: Repair the living . Roman, Suhrkamp Verlag 2015, 256 pages, ISBN 978-3-518-42478-0
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Un monde à portée de main, Éditions Verticales, Paris 2018, ISBN 978-2-07-279052-2
- German by Andrea Spingler: A world in your hands. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-518-42857-3
- various
- Maylis de Kerangal (text), Robin Goldring (drawings); La Peau d'une fille qui rentre de la plage . Galerie Prodromus, Paris 2006, ISBN 978-2-9526019-2-4
- Maylis de Kérangal & Koll .: Inculte. Special coupe du monde . Éditions Inculte, Paris 2006, ISBN 978-2-915453-31-7
- Collectif: Minimum Rock'n'Roll. Binocles Œil de Biche & Verres Fumés . Éditions Le Castor Astral, Coll. “Musique”, Bordeaux and Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-85920-771-7
- Maylis de Kérangal, Joy Sorman (dir.), Collective: Femmes et sport: regards sur les athlètes, les supportrices, et les autres . Éditions Helium, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-35851-019-6
Web links
- Literature by and about Maylis de Kerangal in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alain Beuve-Mery, “Le prix Médicis décerné à Maylis de Kerangal” , Le Monde, November 3, 2010, accessed December 11, 2010
- ^ Hervé Bertho, "Le Médicis décerné à Maylis de Kerangal pour Naissance d'un pont" , Ouest-France, November 3, 2010, accessed December 11, 2010
- ↑ http://www.bibliomonde.com/editeur/baron-perche-594.html
- ↑ Le Médicis à Maylis de Kerangal pour “Naissance d'un pont” in Liberation of November 3, 2010.
- ↑ "Première sélection du Femina" ( Memento of the original from November 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , bibliobs, September 17, 2010, accessed December 11, 2010
- ↑ "Goncourt. Houllebecq, Despentes, de Kerangal et Enard finalistes ” , Le Télégramme, November 4, 2010, accessed December 11, 2010
- ^ "La sélection du prix de Flore" ( Memento of the original dated November 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , bibliobs, September 10, 2010, accessed December 11, 2010
- ^ Franz Hessel Prize to Kathrin Röggla and Maylis de Kerangal buchmarkt.de, December 10, 2010
- ^ A novel about the downside of the search for happiness: Blood toll for continued living , review by Wolfgang Schneider in Deutschlandradio Kultur on May 16, 2015, accessed May 17, 2015
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kerangal, Maylis de |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 16, 1967 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Toulon |