Pierre Michon
Pierre Michon (born March 28, 1945 in Châtelus-le-Marcheix , Département Creuse ) is a French writer .
Life
Michon was born in Les Cards, a hamlet near Châtelus-le-Marcheix. His mother was a teacher, the father left the family when Pierre was two years old. His maternal grandparents, who raised him there, spoke patois . Michon began studying literature at the University of Clermont-Ferrand and was working on a master's thesis on the theater by Antonin Artaud . He continued his studies with interruptions in Paris at the Institut national des langues et civilizations orientales , without obtaining an academic degree, he never had a permanent job.
His first literary publication was in 1983 for the Oracl magazine . He received the Prix France Culture in 1984 for his first novel Vies minuscules . He was awarded the Prix Décembre in 2002 for Corps du roi and the Grand Prix du Roman of the Académie française for Les onze in 2009. In 2010 he received the Petrarca Prize in Germany , and in 2019 the Czech Franz Kafka Prize .
Michon lives and works in Nantes .
Works in German translation
- Body of the King , translated by Anne Weber . Suhrkamp, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-518-22491-5
- The Elf , translated by Eva Moldenhauer . Suhrkamp, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-22474-8
- The Grande Beune , translated by Katja Massury. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-22463-2
- Rimbaud the son , translated by Anne Weber. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-22437-3
- Life of the Little Dead , translated by Anne Weber . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-518-41612-X
- Lord and servant , translated by Holger Fock. Manholt, Bremen 1994, ISBN 3-924903-41-7
- The life of Joseph Roulin , translated by Joachim Klink. Manholt, Bremen 1990, ISBN 3-924903-78-6
literature
- Patrick Crowley: Pierre Michon: the afterlife of names . Peter Lang, Bern 2007, ISBN 978-3-03910-744-5
- Tilman Krause : rain, horror, circles of hell. Of great elemental force: the French narrator Pierre Michon can be discovered . In: Die Welt , August 6, 2011 (Review Die Grande Beune )
- Wolfgang Matz: Earth, Heaven. Laudation to Pierre Michon for the Petrarca Prize . In: Manuskripte , 189–190, Graz 2010, pp. 358–362.
Web links
- Literature by and about Pierre Michon in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Pierre Michon at perlentaucher.de
- Pierre Michon at Éditions Verdier
- Pierre Michon at Suhrkamp
Individual evidence
- ↑ Patrick Crowley: Pierre Michon: the afterlife of names . P. 21 f.
- ↑ Jürg Altwegg : Writing means praying . In: FAZ , March 28, 2015, p. 14
- ↑ Un voyage en Egypt . see: Patrick Crowley: Pierre Michon: the afterlife of names , p. 28
- ↑ Peter Urban-Halle : Indecent thoughts. Review , Deutschlandradio Kultur , July 6, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Michon, Pierre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 28, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Châtelus-le-Marcheix |