Olivier Mannoni
Olivier Mannoni (born September 14, 1960 ) is a French translator.
Life
Olivier Mannoni has been working as a freelance journalist since 1978. He wrote literary reviews for Liberation , "L'Événement du jeudi" and "Le magazine littéraire". Between 1992 and 1999 he was a literary critic for La Quinzaine littéraire .
Mannoni is a translator of fiction and philosophical and sociological texts from German into French, he has done around 200 translations by 2018.
Mannoni wrote the biographies of Günter Grass and Manès Sperber and edited an edition of Sperber's works at Éditions Odile Jacob.
Among other things, Mannoni translated three texts by Sigmund Freud and a selection of letters from Freud arranged by Max Eitingon , philosophical works by Hans Blumenberg , Helmuth Plessner , Odo Marquard and Peter Sloterdijk , sociological texts by Harald Welzer , Wolfgang Sofsky , historical texts by Joachim Fest , Wilfried Nippel , Peter Reichel and Ralf Ogorreck's investigation into the task forces of the Security Police and the SD . The fiction authors he has translated include Martin Suter , in particular the writers Peter Berling , Maxim Biller , Sherko Fatah , Milena Michiko Flasar , Wolfram Fleischhauer , Thomas Glavinic , Gaby Hauptmann , Jörg Kastner , Ludwig Laher , Bernhard Schlink and Uwe Tellkamp .
From 2007 to 2012 Mannoni was chairman of the Association des Traducteurs Littéraires de France (ATLF). Since 2012 he has been running a translation seminar at the Center national du livre.
In 2018 received the Mannoni in Sulzbach / Saar ausgelobten Eugen-Helmlé Translator's Prize .
Works (selection)
- Un écrivain à abattre: l'Allemagne against Günter Grass . Ramsay, Paris 1996
- Günter Grass: l'honneur d'un homme . Bayard, Paris 2000
- Manès Sperber : l'espoir tragique . Foreword by Jean Blot. A. Michel, Paris 2004
- Translations
- Franzobel : À ce point de folie. D'après l'histoire du naufrage de La Méduse . Flammarion, Paris 2018 (Via Méduse )
Web links
- Literature by and about Olivier Mannoni in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Olivier Mannoni in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Olivier Mannoni , website
- En terre germaniques , essay, in "Contrepoint", December 2, 2019, Zs. The CEATL
Individual evidence
- ↑ Olivier Mannoni receives the Eugen Helmlé Translator Award , SZ, July 18, 2018, p. 12
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Mannoni, Olivier |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French translator and biographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 14, 1960 |