Romain Puertolas

Romain Puértolas 2014.

Romain Puértolas (born December 21, 1975 in Montpellier , France ) is a French writer .

Life

With the book Le jour où Shakespeare a inventé le moonwalk , Puértolas made his debut as a writer. With his second novel L'extraordinaire voyage du fakir qui était resté coincé dans une armoire Ikea , he achieved his international breakthrough a year later. The book was a hit with audiences. It was nominated for the prestigious Prix ​​Renaudot literary prize. By March 2014, the book had sold over 300,000 copies in France alone. It was translated into 36 languages ​​and made into a film ; the film was released in German cinemas at the end of November 2018.

Works (selection)

• Le jour où Shakespeare a inventé le moonwalk. Groupe CCEE, Aubagne 2012, ISBN 978-2-35682-090-7 .
• L'extraordinaire voyage du fakir qui était resté coincé dans une armoire Ikea. Le Dilettante, Aubagne 2013, ISBN 978-2-84263-776-7 .
  • The incredible journey of the fakir stuck in an Ikea closet . Translated from Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel . S. Fischer Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-8398-1322-5 .
• La Petite Fille qui avait avalé un nuage grand comme la tour Eiffel. Le Dilettante, Paris 2015, ISBN 978-2-84263-812-2 .
  • The girl who swallowed a cloud the size of the Eiffel Tower. Übers. Maja Ueberle-Pfaff. Atlantik, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-455-60037-7 .
  • The incredible flight of the postwoman in love. Übers. Maja Ueberle-Pfaff. Heyne, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-453-41982-7 .
• Re-vive l'empereur. Le Dilettante, Paris 2015, ISBN 978-2-84263-845-0 .
  • The little emperor is back. Atlantik, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-455-60049-0 .
• Tout un été sans Facebook. Le Dilettante, Paris 2017 ISBN 978-2-84263-907-5
• Un détective très très très special. La Joie de Lire, Geneva 2017, ISBN 978-2-88908-380-0 .
• Les nouvelles aventures du fakir au pays d'Ikea. Le Dilettante, Paris 2018, ISBN 978-2-84263-946-4 .

Filmography (selection)

• 2018: The Incredible Journey of the fakir, who was stuck in a closet (The Extraordinary Journey of the fakir)

Web links

Commons : Romain Puértolas  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Romain Puértolas in the catalog of the German National Library
• Romain Puértolas in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Author's website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Premier roman, premier salon: le "conte de fées" de Romain Puértolas , at France Info
2. ↑ "The unbelievable journey of the fakir" starts on November 29th in the cinema , boersenblatt.net, published and accessed on August 3rd, 2018