Patrick Deville
| Patrick Deville | |
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| Born | 14 December 1957 |
| Occupation | writer |
| Language | French |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | University of Nantes |
Patrick Deville (born 14 December 1957) is a French writer.
Life
After studying comparative literature and philosophy at the University of Nantes, Patrick Deville lived in the 1980s in the Middle East, in Nigeria, in Algeria. In the 1990s, he regularly visited Cuba in Uruguay, Central America. He created in 1996, the "price of the young Latin American literature" and review Meet, the House foreign writers and translators of Saint-Nazaire , which is now the literary editor.
In 2011, Lire magazine editors selects Kampuchea best French novel of the year.
In 2012, his novel Plague and Cholera (life of the bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin) is one of the most prominent of the literary season, retained in almost all French prize finalists and receives the Fnac prize for the novel, and the Prix Femina.[1][2]
His books have been translated into a dozen languages.
Works
- Cordon-bleu, Editions de Minuit 1987 ISBN 9782707311207
- Das Perspektiv. Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, 1989, ISBN 9783498012816
- El Catalejo, Translator Javier Albiñana, Anagrama, 1990, ISBN 9788433931863
- Le Feu d'artifice, Editions de Minuit 1992 (The Fireworks) ISBN 9782707314208
- Los Fuegos artificiales, Edicions 62, 1994, ISBN 9788429737332
- 花火, 白水社, 1994, ISBN 9784560043264
- La Femme parfaite,, Editions de Minuit 1995 (The perfect woman) ISBN 9782707315076
- Ces deux-là, Editions de Minuit, 2000 (These two)
- Pura vida: vie & mort de William Walker, Seuil, 2004 (Pure Life: Life and death of William Walker) ISBN 9782020628778
- Pura vida: Vida y muerte de William Walker, Seix Barral, 2005, ISBN 9788432227875
- La Tentation des armes à feu, Seuil, 2006 (The Temptation of firearms) ISBN 9782020798303
- Equatoria, Seuil, 2009, ISBN 9782020906807
- Kampuchéa, Seuil, 2011, ISBN 9782021056723
- Vie et mort sainte Tina l'exilée, editions publie.net, 2011 (Life and holy death in exile Tina)
- Peste et Choléra, Seuil, 2012. [Plague and Cholera] ISBN 978-2-02-107720-9
Notes and references
- This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the French Wikipedia.
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