Patrick Grainville

Patrick Grainville

Patrick Grainville (born June 1, 1947 in Villers-sur-Mer ) is a French writer. In 1976 he received the Prix ​​Goncourt for Les Flamboyants , his fourth novel.

Grainville grew up in Villerville near Deauville , where his father was mayor . He attended schools in Deauville, Caen and Paris (Lycée Henri IV) and studied at the Sorbonne . In 1972 his first novel was published by Gallimard (La Toison). He was a French teacher at the Lycée Évariste Galois in Sartrouville and a literary critic for Le Monde .

Grainville's novels have fantastic and mythological elements. He paints and, as a writer, draws inspiration from paintings.

Les Flamboyants was rejected by Gallimard, who published his first three books, and appeared in Seuil. Three years earlier, his novel La Lisière failed in the competition for the Prix Goncourt, despite the support of Michel Tournier . The novel is about a tyrannical, picturesque African king Tokor and a European visitor. Other books by Grainville deal with Africa, which he traveled extensively.

He was a long-time member of the Prix Médicis jury.

Novels

• La Toison , Gallimard, 1972
• La Lisière , Gallimard, 1973
• L'Abîme , Gallimard, 1974
• Les Flamboyants , Éditions du Seuil, 1976,
• La Diane rousse , Éditions du Seuil, 1978
• Le Dernier viking , Éditions du Seuil, 1982,
• L'Ombre de la bête , Balland, 1981
• Les Forteresses noires , Seuil, 1982,
• La Caverne céleste , Éditions du Seuil, 1984,
• Le Paradis des Orages , le Grand livre du mois, 1986,
• L'Atelier du peintre , Éditions du Seuil, 1988
• L'Orgie, la Neige , le Grand livre du mois, 1990 (received the Prix Guillaume le Conquérant of the Société des auteurs de Normandie).
  • German edition: The orgy, the snow , Klett-Cotta 1999
• Colère , Éditions du Seuil, 1992,
  • German edition: Zorn , Klett-Cotta 1994
• Les ans et les faucons: roman , Éditions du Seuil, 1994
  • German edition: Engel und Falken , Klett-Cotta 1996
• Le Lien , Éditions du Seuil, 1996
• Le Tyran éternel , Seuil, 1998
• Le Jour de la fin du monde une femme me cache , 2001
• L'Atlantique et les Amants , 2002
• La Joie d'Aurélie , Seuil, 2004
• La Main blessée , 2005
• Lumière du rat , 2008
• Le Baiser de la pieuvre , 2010
• Le Corps immense du président Mao , 2011
• Bison 2014 (received the Grand prix Palatine)
• Le Démon de la vie , 2016

Web links

• Information on Patrick Grainville in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .