Sorj Chalandon
Sorj Chalandon (born May 16, 1952 in Tunis , French North Africa ) is a French writer and journalist.
Life
Sorj Chalandon worked from 1973 to February 2007 as a journalist for the newspaper " Liberation ". There he was responsible for reporting on Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan. In 1988 he received the Albert Londres Prize for his reports on Northern Ireland and the Klaus Barbie trial. Since 2009 Sorj Chalandon has been editor of the newspaper “ Le Canard enchaîné ”, the most important satirical weekly newspaper in France.
In addition to his work as a journalist, he has published a total of eight novels to date: Le petit Bonzi (2005), Une promesse (2006), Mon traître (2008), La légende de nos pères (2009), Retour à Killybegs (2011), Le quatrième mur (2013), Profession du père (2015) and Le Jour d'avant (2017).
Chalandon's work has already received numerous awards and nominations: u. a. He received the Prix Médicis, the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française 2011 and has already been nominated twice for the Prix Goncourt : 2011 for Retour à Killybegs and 2013 for Le quatrième mur
La légende de nos pères (2009) is Sorj Chalandon's first book to be translated into German by Brigitte Große. It was published in 2012 under the title The Legend of Our Fathers .
After the presentation of The Day Before on the TV show The Literary Quartet , the novel became a sales success in 2019.
Chalandon co-wrote three episodes of season 2 of the television series Reporter (Canal +) and was working with series creator Olivier Kohn on season three when the broadcaster announced the discontinuation of the series.
Works and awards
- Le petit Bonzi . Novel. Paris 2005, Grasset
- Prix du premier roman de l'Université d'Artois, 2006
- Prix de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, 2006
- Prix du premier roman du Touquet, 2006
- Une promesse . Novel. Paris 2006, Grasset
- Prix Médicis , 2006
- Mon traître . Novel. Paris 2008, Grasset
- Prix Jean-Freustié, 2008
- Prix Joseph-Kessel, 2008
- Prix Marguerite Puhl-Demange, 2008
- Prix littéraire de la ville des Sables d'Olonne-Festival Simenon, 2008
- Prix Gabrielle d'Estrées, 2008
- Prix Lettres Frontière, 2008
- La legend de nos pères . Novel. Paris 2009, Grasset (German udT The legend of our fathers . Novel. From the French by Brigitte Große , Munich 2012, German , ISBN 978-3-423-24899-0 )
- Prix Ouest du Printemps du Livre, 2010
- Prix Biennale du livre d'Histoire, 2010
- Return to Killybegs . Novel. Paris 2011, Grasset (German udT return to Killybegs . Roman. From the French by Brigitte Große, Munich 2013, German, ISBN 978-3-423-24974-4 )
- Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie française, 2011
- Nominated for the Prix Goncourt , 2011
- Nominated for the Prix Interallié , 2011
- List Goncourt / Le Choix de Pologne, 2011
- List Goncourt / Le Choix de la Serbie, 2012
- Le quatrième mur . Novel. Paris 2013, Grasset (German udT The fourth wall . Roman. From the French by Brigitte Große, Munich 2015, German, ISBN 978-3-423-26066-4 )
- Nominated for the Prix Goncourt , 2013
- Prix Goncourt des lycéens , 2013
- List Goncourt / Le Choix de l'Orient, 2013
- List Goncourt / Le Choix de la Roumanie, 2013
- Prix des lecteurs Escale du Livre, 2014 (Bordeaux)
- Prix des écrivains croyants, 2014
- Prix des Libraires de Québec, 2014
- Profession du père . Novel. Paris 2015, Grasset (German udT My Strange Father . Roman. From the French by Brigitte Große, German, Munich 2017 ISBN 978-3-423-28114-0 )
- Prix du Style, 2015
- Le Jour d'avant . Novel. Paris 2017, Grasset (German udT On the day before . Roman. From the French by Brigitte Große, German, Munich 2019 ISBN 978-3-423-28169-0 )
- Prix Libraires en Seine, 2018
Web links
- Literature by and about Sorj Chalandon in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Literature by and about Sorj Chalandon in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Sorj Chalandon in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Sorj Chalandon on his novel ›Retour à Killybegs‹ . Video accessed November 28, 2011.
Individual evidence
- ^ Winner of the Prix Médicis . Website of the Prix litteraires. Retrieved November 28, 2011.
- ↑ Chalandon receives the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française 2011 . Website of the Prix litteraires. Retrieved November 28, 2011.
- ↑ Nomination list for the Prix Goncourt 2011 . Website of the Académie Goncourt. Retrieved November 28, 2011.
- ↑ The legend of our fathers at dtv . Website of the German paperback publishing house. Retrieved November 28, 2011.
- ↑ The Literary Quartet of August 9, 2019. Retrieved September 23, 2019 .
- ↑ book report. Retrieved on September 23, 2019 (German).
- ↑ http://www.prix-litteraires.net/prix/1637,prix-biennale-du-livre-d-histoire.html
- ↑ http://www.academie-francaise.fr/actualites/m-sorj-chalandon
- ↑ https://www.academie-goncourt.fr/?article=1352732011
- ^ Nomination list for the Prix Interallié 2011 . Website of the Prix litteraires. Retrieved November 28, 2011.
- ↑ https://www.academie-goncourt.fr/?article=1258401958
- ↑ https://www.academie-goncourt.fr/?article=1383583139
- ↑ http://www.telerama.fr/livre/prix-goncourt-2013-la-premiere-selection-devoilee,101843.php
- ↑ https://www.academie-goncourt.fr/?article=1258401160
- ↑ http://lechoixdelorient2013.blogspot.de/p/livres.html
- ↑ https://www.academie-goncourt.fr/?article=1383588393
- ↑ http://www.prixdustyle.com/edition-2015.php
- ↑ https://www.livreshebdo.fr/article/sorj-chalandon-recoit-le-prix-libraires-en-seine-2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chalandon, Sorj |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tunis |