Sylvain Tesson
Sylvain Tesson (born April 26, 1972 in Paris ) is a French travel writer.
Life
Sylvain Tesson is a son of the doctor Marie-Claude Tesson and the journalist Philippe Tesson. He studied geography with a DEA degree and made his first bicycle trip to Central Asia in 1997 . Tesson took part in several scientific expeditions. He became a member of the Société des Explorateurs Français. He travels mainly to Asia and the area of the former Soviet Union. He usually travels with a few partners, such as B. for a motorcycle trip from Moscow to Paris, described in Berezina , with the French photographer Thomas Goisque, the French travel writer Cédric Gras and two Russian companions. In 2012, he fell from the roof of a house, survived seriously injured, but suffered facial paralysis. As part of the healing process, he traveled through France. He describes this journey in Sur les chemins noirs . His books are very successful in France. From La Panthère des neiges about 500,000 copies were sold, Tesson became the "most widely read French-speaking author in 2019".
Awards
- 2009: Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle for Une vie à coucher dehors
- 2011: Prix Médicis essai for Dans les forêts de Sibérie
- 2015: Prix littéraire de l'armée de Terre - Erwan Bergot for Berezina
- 2019: Prix Renaudot for La Panthère des neiges
Fonts (selection)
- with Alexandre Poussin: On a roulé sur la terre . Laffont, 1996 ISBN 978-2-7441-0422-0
- with Alexandre Poussin: La marche dans le ciel: 5000 km à pied à travers l 'Himalaya . Laffont, 1998
- with Priscilla Telmon: La chevauchée des steppes: 3000 km à cheval à travers l'Asie centrale . 2001
- L'Axe du loup: de la Sibérie à L'Inde, sur les pas des évadés du Goulag . Laffont, 2004, ISBN 978-2-221-10041-7
- Les jardins d'Allah . 2004
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Petit traité sur l'immensité du monde . 2005
- Brief account of the immensity of the world . Translation by Nicola Denis, edited by Judith Schalansky . Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2013 ISBN 978-3-88221-079-8
- Sous l'étoile de la liberté . 2005
- Éloge de l'énergie vagabonde . Equateurs, 2006 ISBN 978-2-84990-055-0
- Une vie à couch dehors . 2009
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In the forêts de Siberia . 2011
- In the forests of Siberia: Diary from loneliness . Translation Claudia Kalscheuer. Munich: btb, 2016 ISBN 978-3-442-71343-1
- S'abandonner à vivre . 2014
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Berezina . Guérin, 2015, ISBN 978-2-35221-089-4
- Napoleon and I: An Adventurous Journey from Moscow to Paris . Translation by Holger Fock, Sabine Müller. Munich: Knaus, 2016 ISBN 978-3-8135-0718-8
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Sur les chemins noirs . Gallimard, 2016 ISBN 978-2-07-014637-6
- On sunken paths . Translation by Holger Fock, Sabine Müller. Munich: Knaus, 2017 ISBN 978-3-8135-0775-1
- Une très légère oscillation . Éditions des Équateurs, 2017 ISBN 978-2-84990-495-4
- with Thomas Goisque: En avant, calme et fou . Albin Michel, 2017
- Un été avec homère . Equateurs France Inter, 2018 ISBN 978-2-84990-550-0
- La panthère des neiges . Gallimard, 2019, ISBN 978-2-07-282232-2 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Sylvain Tesson in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Sylvain Tesson in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Sylvain Tesson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sylvain Tesson , at Matthes and Seitz
- Sylvain Tesson , at franceculture
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nicole Vulser: Un surprise Renaudot pour Sylvain Tesson, recompense pour son livre "La Panthère des neiges". In: Le Monde. November 4, 2019, accessed February 20, 2020 (French).
- ^ Sylvain Tesson, author francophone le plus lu de l * année 2019. In: Le Figaro. February 13, 2020, accessed on February 20, 2020 (French).
- ↑ Raphaëlle Leyris: Prix Goncourt 2019: Jean-Paul Dubois vainqueur pour “Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon” . In: lemonde.fr, November 4, 2019 (accessed November 4, 2019).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tesson, Sylvain |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French travel writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |