Yves Navarre

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Yves Navarre (born September 24, 1940 in Condom , † January 24, 1994 in Paris ) was a French writer .

biography

After studying literature at Lille University (Spanish, English and modern French literature), Yves Navarre attended the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales du Nord (EDHEC), from which he graduated in 1964. After that he worked in advertising .

In 1958, at the age of 18, he wrote his first novel, which was rejected. More than a dozen other novels should fare no better. It wasn't until 1971 that a manuscript was accepted by him, Lady Black , a novel whose main characters are transvestites.

His third novel, Les Loukoums (1973), centered around a mysterious disease that spreads across New York City, made Yves Navarre known to a broader readership. From then on he published a new novel practically every year, often with the theme of love between two men ( Le Petit Galopin de nos corps , 1977, Portrait de Julien devant la fenêtre , 1979). But he also wrote plays such as Il pleut, si on tuait papa-maman , Dialogue de sourdes , La Guerre des piscines , Lucienne de Carpentras (in which we meet again one of the main characters from Les Loukoums , Lucy Balfour) or Les dernières clientes .

The novel Le Jardin d'acclimatation tells the story of a young man from a good family who, because of his homosexuality, is admitted to an institution and subjected to a lobotomy there. This book was awarded the Prix ​​Goncourt in 1980.

Between 1981 and 1989 Yves Navarre was the spokesman for homosexuals under President François Mitterrand , but as an author he felt misunderstood.

From 1990 to 1993 he lived in Montréal, Canada . His novel Ce sont amis que vent emporte , published in 1991, is set in this city. The sculptor Roch lives with his friend, the dancer David. The story tells of their fight against AIDS , which both of them suffer from.

Back in France, Yves Navarre committed suicide on January 24, 1994 using barbiturates because of depression .

Works

Novels

  • Lady Black , Flammarion , 1971
  • Evolène , Flammarion, 1972
  • Les Loukoums , Flammarion, 1973, German by Trésy Lejoly and Heinz Jentner: Loukoum , Verlag Rosa Winkel , Berlin 1986
  • Le Cœur qui cogne , Flammarion, 1974
  • Killer: roman , Flammarion, 1975
  • Plum Parade: vingt-quatre heures de la vie d'un mini-cirque , Flammarion, 1975
  • Niagarak , Grasset, 1976
  • Le Petit Galopin de nos corps , Robert Laffont, 1977, new edition with a foreword by Serge Hefez in "Classiques H&O poche", Béziers: H&O, 2005, ISBN 2-84547-109-2
  • Kurwenal ou la Part des êtres , Robert Laffont, 1977
  • Je vis où je m'attache , Robert Laffont, 1978
  • Le Temps voulu , Flammarion, 1979
  • Portrait de Julien devant la fenêtre , Robert Laffont, 1979; New edition H&O, 2006
  • Le Jardin d'acclimatation , Flammarion, 1980, German by Christel Kauder: Preventive intervention , Beck & Glückler, Freiburg i. B. 1988
  • Romances sans paroles , Flammarion, 1982
  • Premières Pages , Flammarion, 1983
  • L'Espérance de beaux voyages, 1: Eté-automne , Flammarion, 1984
  • L'Espérance de beaux voyages, 2: Hiver-printemps , Flammarion, 1984
  • Phénix, le paysage regarde , illustrated by Jean Dieuzaide and Lucien Clergue, P. Montel, 1984
  • Louise , Flammarion, 1985
  • Fête des mères , Albin Michel, 1987
  • Romans, un roman , Albin Michel, 1988
  • Hôtel Styx , Albin Michel, 1989
  • Douce France , Québec, Leméac, 1990
  • La Terrasse des audiences au moment de l'adieu , Montréal, Leméac, 1990
  • Ce sont amis que vent emporte , Flammarion, 1991, in German by Claude Stahl: My friends, whom the wind carries away , Kulturwerk, Hildesheim 2000
  • La Vie dans l'âme , Diaries, Montréal, Le Jour / VLB, 1992
  • Poudre d'or , Flammarion, 1993
  • Dernier dimanche avant la fin du siècle , Flammarion, 1994
  • La Ville Atlantique , Leméac / Actes Sud, 1996
  • Dialogue de sourdes , La Traverse, Nice 1999
  • La Dame du fond de la cour , Leméac / Actes Sud, 2000
  • Avant que tout me devienne insupportable , H&O, 2006

Plays

  • Théâtre , 3 volumes, Flammarion, 1974, 1976, 1982

Autobiography

  • Biography , Flammarion, 1981
  • Une vie de chat , Albin Michel, 1986, German by Rudolf Kimming: Kater Tiffauges - The story of his life told by himself , Hoffmann and Campe Verlag, Hamburg 1987
  • Un condamné à vivre s'est échappé , texts, interviews and poems, with Pierre Salducci, Hull (Québec), Vents d'Ouest, 1997

Quotes

«Tenderness kills. The lack of tenderness is murder. "

"Every true creative act is a suicide that nobody is watching."

from: My friends who are carried away by the wind

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Navarre, Yves
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Condom
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1994
Place of death Paris