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The French author Tanguy Viel at a reading in Osnabrück in November 2015

Tanguy Viel (born July 7, 1973 in Brest ) is a Breton-French writer who is best known for his thriller and crime novels.

life and work

Tanguy Viel grew up in Brest until he was twelve and then went to high school in Bourges . During his studies in Tours , he met François Bon , who became his mentor and opened the doors for him to the Éditions de Minuit publishing house , which published almost all of his previous books. After spending some time in Nantes, Tanguy Viel currently (2009) lives in Meung-sur-Loire .

For his first novel Le Black Note , he chose jazz as the core motif, then film making ( Cinéma ) and “ Roman noir ” ( Insoupçonnable ). He is known for a “precise, tension-laden and elliptical style ” and for books that are rich in content and not very long. He wrote his fourth novel, Unspockable , the story of a family intrigue , as "Author in Residence" at the Villa Medici , the renowned French national cultural institute in Rome. Most recently (2013) he published La Disparition de Jim Sullivan (English title: The Disappearance of Jim Sullivan).

So far (2014) four of his works have been published in German. They were transmitted by Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel , who is known for his excellent Céline translation work , and were published by Wagenbach Verlag .

Works

• Le Black Note. Éditions de Minuit , Paris 1998, ISBN 2-7073-1631-8 .
• Cinéma. Minuit, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-7073-1670-9 .
• Tout s'explique: réflexions à partir d '"Explications" de Pierre Guyotat . Inventaire-Invention, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-914412-04-5 .
• L'Absolue perfection du crime. Minuit, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-7073-1765-9 .
  • Übers. Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel : The absolutely perfect crime. Wagenbach, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8031-3221-5 .
• Maladie. Inventaire-Invention, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-914412-19-3 .
• Insoupçonnable. Minuit, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-7073-1941-4 .
  • Übers. Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel: Not suspicious. Novel. Wagenbach, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8031-3212-3 .
• Paris – Brest. Minuit, Paris 2009.
  • Translated from Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel: Paris – Brest. Novel. Wagenbach, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8031-3234-5 .
• Un jour dans la vie. Librairie Passages, Lyon 2010.
• La Disparition de Jim Sullivan. Éditions de Minuit, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-7073-2294-4 .
  • Übers. Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel: The Disappearance of Jim Sullivan. An American novel. Wagenbach, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-8031-3264-2 .
• Article 353 du code pénal.
  • Übers. Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel: vigilante justice. Novel. Wagenbach, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-8031-3290-1 .

Awards (selection)

• 2010 Prix du Roman de la Ville de Carhaix for Paris-Brest
• 2002 Prix ​​littéraire de la Vocation

Web links

• Literature by and about Tanguy Much in the catalog of the German National Library
• Pearl divers entry to the author
• Review of The Absolutely Perfect Crime on Deutschlandradio Kultur , June 18, 2009
• Review by Eckart Löhr of Unverdächtig at literaturkritik.de , September 20, 2007
• Literaturhaus Bonn: Reads a lot from "Vigilante Justice", moderated by Patricia Klobusiczky , November 27, 2017, in the evening in the "Bücherstube" Sankt Augustin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Report on the website of the city of Carhaix-Plowen: Tanguy Viel et son Paris-Brest remportent le prix carhaisien ( Memento of December 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Wagenbach-Verlag: Author entry
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Institut français Bremen: Text of the event on the reading by the author in November 2007 ( Memento from February 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ pagesdefrance.de
5. ↑ Literaturkritik.de of September 20, 2007: Review of Unverdächtig