Vincent Almendros

Vincent Almendros (* 1978 in Avignon , France ) is a French writer .

life and work

Almendros studied literature at the University of Avignon and then began to write poetry and prose. He sent his first novel about the love of a private teacher for his pupil, Machère Lise , to the Belgian author Jean-Philippe Toussaint with a request for a review . Since he liked the novel, he passed it on to the director of the Les Éditions du Minuit publishing house in Paris, Irène Lindon. The novel was published there in 2011. In 2015, the same publisher published Almendros' second novel about a square story on board a sailing boat, Un été , which was published in German in 2017. His third novel, Faire Mouche , followed in 2018 and was also translated into German. Ma chère Lise was also translated into Chinese in 2017.

Typical of Almendros' way of working is the gradual condensation of the manuscripts, which were initially much larger than the published versions. The length of his last two novels is around 100 pages. Machère Lise's 160 pages could also be further reduced with less pressure. Much in his novels, which oscillate between realism and imagination, remains unsaid. The secrecy, the ambiguity help to increase the tension.

Prices

• 2015: Prix ​​Françoise Sagan for Un été .

Works

• Ma chère Lise . Les Éditions du Minuit, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-7073-2194-7 .
• Un été . Les Éditions du Minuit, Paris 2015, ISBN 978-2-7073-2812-0 .
  • German by Till Bardoux : A summer . Wagenbach, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-8031-1324-5 .
• Fair mouche . Les Éditions du Minuit, Paris 2018.
  • German by Till Bardoux: Into the black . Wagenbach, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-38031-1339-9 .

Web links

• [1] Short biography.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brigitte Lannaud Levy: Le coeur au bord des lèvres. Review of L'été on www.onlalu.com (French), accessed on May 21, 2019.
2. ↑ Meetings in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from July 2, 2017, page 49, and Süddeutsche Zeitung from April 7, 2017 on buecher.de