Yann Moix

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Yann Moix (2011)

Yann Moix (born March 31, 1968 in Nevers ) is a French writer, television presenter and film director.

Life

Moix studied at the Université de Reims , the École supérieure de commerce de Reims and the Institut d'études politiques de Paris . In 1996 he received the Prix ​​Goncourt for his debut novel Jubilations vers le ciel , which was also awarded the Prix ​​François-Mauriac (bronze medal) and the Air-Inter Europe . In 2013 Moix received the Prix ​​Renaudot for Naissance .

Moix is ​​also a film director, for example he filmed his own novel Podium in 2004 with Benoît Poelvoorde in the lead role. The comedy is about a little bank clerk whose dream is to become the impersonator of the singer Claude François . Moix has hosted the talk show On n'est pas couché on France 2 since 2015 . There he is known for offensive conversation.

In 2019 it became known that in 1990 he published anti-Semitic texts and caricatures in a right-wing extremist student newspaper (Ushoia), in which, among other things, he denied the existence of concentration camps . Moix apologized and blamed it on adolescent confusion. His statements at the time were also directed against the well-known Jewish intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy . He is now friends with Moix, who is firmly established in the French literary scene (after having been his mentor since 1993) and reacted rather calmly to the revelations. Moix is ​​said to have had contacts with the Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson and was friends with well-known anti-Semitic authors until 2013 ( Marc-Édouard Nabe , Paul-Éric Blanrue ). In 2007 he wrote a foreword to a collection of anti-Semitic texts. Moix, who recently studied the Talmud and who wrote a biography of Edith Stein , was protected by the Jewish student association in France (Union des étudiants juifs de France). Also in 2019, Moix made sexist statements that caused anger.

In his novel Orléans , he describes, in a semi-autobiographical manner, abuse in his childhood (exposure in the forest at night, locking in the cellar, being beaten with a cable). His father, a retired physiotherapist, spoke up and denied the truth. There was corporal punishment, which was still common in wide circles at the time, but not as draconian as he described in his novel. The reasons would also have been the cruelty of the young Moix towards his younger brother, whom he did not accept. Among other things, he tried to throw him out of the window or pursued him with a knife. In his autobiographical novel, he didn't mention that he had a brother. The brother confirmed the father's statement. After the revelations in 2019, his new novel Orléans did not make it onto the Prix ​​Goncourt list as expected .

Works

Novels

  • Jubilations vers le ciel. Paris: Grasset. 1996
  • Les cimetières sont des champs de fleurs. Paris: Grasset. 1997
  • Anissa Corto. Paris: Grasset. 2000
  • Podium. Paris: Grasset. 2002
  • Partouz. Paris: Grasset. 2004
  • Pantheon. Paris: Grasset. 2006
  • Mort et vie d'Edith Stein. Paris: Grasset. 2007
  • La pack. Paris: Grasset. 2010
  • Naissance. Paris: Grasset. 2013
  • Une simple lettre d'amour. Paris: Grasset. 2015
  • Terreur. Paris: Grasset. 2017
  • Dehors. Lettre ouverte au President de la République. Paris: Grasset. 2018
  • Rompre. Paris: Grasset. 2019
  • Orleans. Paris: Grasset. 2019

Others

  • Transfusion, Grasset 2004 (poetry)
  • Cinquante ans dans la peau de Michael Jackson, Grasset 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yann Moix and the big mea culpa show , Dirk Fuhrig in conversation with Maja Ellmenreich, Deutschlandfunk, September 3, 2019
  2. ↑ “At 50, I am unable to love a woman at 50,” Welt, January 8, 2019
  3. ↑ Niklas Bender, Settlement in France , faz.net, September 3, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Moix, Yann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer and director
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Nevers