Pierre Lemaitre

Pierre Lemaitre (2013)

Pierre Lemaitre (born April 19, 1951 in Paris ) is a French writer and screenwriter. In 2013 he was awarded the most important French literary prize, the Prix ​​Goncourt , for his novel Au revoir là-haut .

life and work

Pierre Lemaitre worked as a literature teacher in the training of librarians. He is now a freelance writer. He has been a board member of Société des gens de lettres (SGDL) since 2011 .

His first novel Travail soigné is indebted to his literary role models Bret Easton Ellis , Émile Gaboriau , James Ellroy and William McIlvanney . In his second novel, Robe de marié, from 2009, Lemaitre tells the story of thirty-year-old Sophie, who is persecuted as a serial killer and cannot remember her bloody deeds. The socially critical thriller Cadres noirs from 2010 is about a faked hostage-taking. The book is based on a true incident among employees of the French television advertising company France Télévisions Publicité in 2005, for which manager Philippe Santini was convicted in 2010. In Lemaitre's fourth novel Alex , the main character in a confusing game alternates between perpetrator and victim.

With the novel Au revoir là-haut (See you up there) Lemaitre left the crime and thriller genre and presented a historical novel for the first time. It is about two Poilus , common soldiers, after their return from the First World War . The book was filmed by Albert Dupontel in 2017 and was awarded the French César Film Prize in five categories, including the Scriptwriting Prize for Dupontel and Lemaitre.

Lemaitre's novels have been translated into more than 20 languages.

Awards

Lemaitre with his César won for Au revoir là-haut

• Prix ​​du premier roman du Festival de Cognac, 2006 (for Travail soigné )
• Prix ​​des lectrices Confidentielles , 2009 (for Robe de marié )
• Prix ​​Sang d'encre et Prix des lecteurs Goutte de Sang d'encre, Vienne, 2009 (for Robe de marié )
• Prix ​​du polar francophone de Montigny les Cormeilles, 2009 (for Robe de marié )
• Prix Le Point du polar européen , 2010 (for Cadres noirs )
• Prix ​​des lecteurs policier du Livre de poche, 2012 (for Alex )
• CWA International Dagger , 2013 (for Alex )
• Prix ​​des libraires de Nancy Le Point , 2013 (for Au revoir là-haut )
• Roman français préféré des libraires à la Rentrée, 2013 (for Au revoir là-haut )
• Prix ​​Goncourt (for Au revoir là-haut ), 2013
• CWA International Dagger , 2015 (for Camille )
• César 2018 together with Albert Dupontel for the best novel adaptation ( Au revoir là-haut (film) ),

Works

Novels about the policeman Camille Verhoeven

• Travail soigné , 2006
• Alex , 2011
  • I want to see you die , German by Gaby Wurster; Ullstein, Berlin 2012. ISBN 978-3-548-28385-2
• Les Grand Moyens , 2011, published as “feuilleton numerique”, e-book .
• Sacrifices , 2012
  • Sacrifice , German by Tobias Scheffel , Tropen, Stuttgart 2018. ISBN 978-3-608-50370-8
• Rosy & John , 2013 (novel version by Les Grands Moyens ); published for the 60th anniversary of the Livre de poche publishing house

More novels

• Robe de marié , 2009
  • The cold breath of fear , German by Gaby Wurster; Ullstein, Berlin 2009. ISBN 978-3-548-28087-5
• Cadres noirs , 2010
• Au revoir là-haut , 2013
  • See you up there , German by Antje Peter; Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2014. ISBN 978-3-608-98016-5
• Trois jours et une vie. 2016
  • Three days and one life , German by Tobias Scheffel; Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2017. ISBN 978-3-608-98106-3
• Couleurs de l'incendie , 2018
  • The colors of fire , German by Tobias Scheffel; Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2019. ISBN 978-3-608-96338-0

Filmography

movie theater

• 2013 Cadres noirs . Director: Manuel Boursinhac ; Script: Manuel Boursinhac and Pierre Lemaitre
• 2017 Au revoir là-haut (film) . Director: Albert Dupontel , screenplay: Albert Dupontel and Pierre Lemaitre

watch TV

• 2012 L'Affaire Vauthier , part of the Injustices series , TF1
• 2010 Marché de dupes , part of the series Boulevard du Palais , France 2
• 2009 Otages , 2 parts, TF 1
• 2009 L'Homme aux deux visages , part of the Marion Mazzano series , France 2
• 2018 Dérapages , six-part series, arte 2020, German title Out of the track

Web links

Commons : Pierre Lemaitre  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Pierre Lemaitre in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Pierre Lemaitre in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Pierre Lemaitre in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Pierre Lemaitre, préféré des jurys et des libraires at lefigaro.fr

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pierre Lemaitre reçoit le prix Goncourt 2013 , at lexpress.fr
2. ↑ www.sgdl.org
3. ^ Lemaitre, Pierre. "France Télévisions Publicité: quand la réalité inspire la fiction", Mediapart, 28 May 2010.
4. ↑ "Palmarès complet des libraires de la Rentrée littéraire 2013" ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2013 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. , Livres-Hebdo , September 6, 2013 
5. ↑ actualitte.com ( Memento of the original dated November 5, 2013 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.