Pascal Quignard
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Pascal Quignard (French: [kiɲaʁ]; born 23 April 1948) is a French writer born in Verneuil-sur-Avre, Eure.[1] In 2002 his novel Les Ombres errantes (The Roving Shadows) won the Prix Goncourt, France's top literary prize.[2] Terrasse à Rome (A Terrace in Rome), received the French Academy prize in 2000. In 1980 Carus had been awarded the Prix des Critiques. He also won the 2023 Prix Formentor.
Among Quignard's most commented-upon works are his eighty-four "Little Treatises" (Petits traités), first published in 1990 by Maeght. But his most popular book is probably All the World's Mornings (Tous les matins du monde), about 17th-century viola de gamba player Marin Marais and his teacher, Sainte-Colombe, which was adapted for the screen in 1991, by director Alain Corneau. Quignard wrote the screenplay of the film, in collaboration with Corneau. Tous les matins du monde, starring Jean-Pierre Marielle, Gérard Depardieu and son Guillaume Depardieu, was a tremendous success in France and sold 2 million tickets in the first year. It was subsequently distributed in 31 countries, and released in 1992 in the United States. The soundtrack was certified platinum (500,000 copies) and contributed to musician Jordi Savall’s international celebrity. Quignard has also translated works from the Latin (Porcius Latro), Chinese (Kong-souen Long), and Greek (Lycophron).
Works
Novels, novellas, récit
- Le Lecteur (Gallimard, 1976)
- Carus (Gallimard, 1979)
- Les Tablettes de buis d’Apronenia Avitia (Gallimard, 1984). On Wooden Tablets: Apronenia Avitia, trans. Bruce X (Burning Deck, 2001)
- Le Salon du Wurtemberg (Gallimard, 1986). The Salon in Württemberg, trans. Barbara Bray (Grove Weidenfeld, 1991)
- Les Escaliers de Chambord (Gallimard, 1989)
- Tous les matins du monde (Gallimard, 1991). All the World's Mornings, trans. James Kirkup (Graywolf Press, 1993)
- L'Amour conjugal (Patrice Trigano, 1994)
- L'Occupation américaine (Seuil, 1994)
- Dernier Royaume (Last Kingdom) series (1997–ongoing):
- Les Ombres errantes (Grasset, 2002). The Roving Shadows, trans. Chris Turner (Seagull Books, 2011)
- Sur le jadis (Grasset, 2002). The Fount of Time, trans. Chris Turner (Seagull Books, 2021)
- Abîmes (Grasset, 2002). Abysses, trans. Chris Turner (Seagull Books, 2015)
- Les Paradisiaques (Grasset, 2005)
- Sordidissimes (Grasset, 2005)
- La Barque silencieuse (Le Seuil, 2009). The Silent Crossing, trans. Chris Turner (Seagull Books, 2013)
- Les Désarçonnés (Grasset, 2012). The Unsaddled, trans. John Taylor (Seagull Books, 2023)
- Vie secrète (Gallimard, 1997)
- Mourir de penser (Grasset, 2014). Dying of Thinking, trans. John Taylor (Seagull Books, 2024)
- L'Enfant d'Ingolstadt (Grasset, 2018)
- L'Homme aux trois lettres (Grasset, 2020)
- Les Heures heureuses (Albin Michel, 2023)
- Terrasse à Rome (Gallimard, 2000). A Terrace in Rome, trans. Douglas Penick and Charles Ré (Wakefield Press, 2016)
- Requiem (Galilée, 2006)
- Villa Amalia (Gallimard, 2006). Villa Amalia, trans. Chris Turner (Seagull Books, 2018)
- Le Petit Cupidon (Galilée, 2006)
- Les Solidarités mystérieuses (Gallimard, 2011). Mysterious Solidarities, trans. Chris Turner (Seagull Books, 2021)
- Les Larmes (Grasset, 2016). The Tears, trans. Chris Turner (Seagull Books, 2023)
- Dans ce jardin qu'on aimait (Grasset, 2017)
- L'Amour, la Mer (Gallimard, 2022)
Short stories
- Éthelrude et Wolframm (Galilée, 2006)
- Le Secret du domaine, illustrations by Jean Garonnaire (Éditions de l’Amitié, 1980). Reprinted in 2006 under the title L'Enfant au visage couleur de la mort
- Triomphe du temps (Galilée, 2006)
- Princesse Vieille Reine (Galilée, 2015)
- Le Chant du marais (Chandeigne, 2016)
Essays and other
- L'Être du balbutiement (Mercure de France, 1969)
- La Parole de la Délie : essai sur Maurice Scève (Mercure de France, 1974)
- Michel Deguy (Seghers, 1975)
- Sarx (Maeght, 1977). Sarx, trans. Keith Waldrop (Burning Deck Press, 1997)
- Petits traités (Little Treatises) series (1981–90):
- Petits traités, Book I (Clivages, 1981)
- Petits traités, Book II (Clivages, 1983)
- Petits traités, Book III (Clivages, 1984)
- Petits traités, Books I to VIII (Maeght, 1990)
- Le Vœu de silence: essai sur Louis-René des Forêts (éditions Fata Morgana, 1985)
- Albucius (POL, 1990). Albucius, trans. Bruce Boone (The Lapis Press, 1992)
- Le Sexe et l'Effroi (Gallimard, 1994). Sex and Terror, trans. Chris Turner (Seagull Books, 2011)
- La Haine de la musique (Calmann-Lévy, 1996). The Hatred of Music, trans. Matthew Amos and Fredrik Rönnbäck (Yale University Press, 2016)
- La Nuit sexuelle (Flammarion, 2007). The Sexual Night, trans. Chris Turner (Seagull Books, 2015)
- La Réponse à Lord Chandos (Éditions Galilée, 2020). The Answer to Lord Chandos, trans. Stéphanie Boulard and Timothy Lavenz (Wakefield Press, 2024)
Books translated in English
- The Salon in Württemberg, trans. Barbara Bray (Grove Weidenfeld, 1991)
- Albucius, trans. Bruce Boone (The Lapis Press, 1992)
- All the World's Mornings, trans. James Kirkup (Graywolf Press, 1993)
- Sarx, trans. Keith Waldrop (Burning Deck Press, 1997)
- On Wooden, 1997 Tablets: Apronenia Avitia (Burning Deck Press, 2001)
- The Roving Shadows, trans. Chris Turner (Seagull Books, 2011)
- Sex and Terror, trans. Chris Turner (Seagull Books, 2011)
- The Silent Crossing, trans. Chris Turner (Seagull Books, 2013)
- Abysses, trans. Chris Turner (Seagull Books, 2015)
- The Sexual Night, trans. Chris Turner (Seagull Books, 2015)
- A Terrace in Rome, trans. Douglas Penick and Charles Ré (Wakefield Press, 2016)
- The Hatred of Music, trans. Matthew Amos and Fredrik Rönnbäck (Yale University Press, 2016)
- Villa Amalia, trans. Chris Turner (Seagull Books, 2018)
- Mysterious Solidarities, trans. Chris Turner (Seagull Books, 2021)
- The Fount of Time, trans. Chris Turner (Seagull Books, 2021)
- The Tears, trans. Chris Turner (Seagull Books, 2023)
- The Unsaddled, trans. John Taylor (Seagull Books, 2023)
- Dying of Thinking, trans. John Taylor (Seagull Books, 2024)
Awards and honours
- 1980: Prix des Critiques, for Carus
- 1991: Prix de la langue française
- 1998: Grand prix de littérature de la SGDL, for Vie secrète
- 1998: Grand prix du roman de la Ville de Paris
- 2000: Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française, for Terrasse à Rome
- 2000: Prix de la Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco
- 2002: Prix Goncourt, for Les Ombres errantes
- 2006: Grand prix Jean Giono, for Villa Amalia
- 2023: Prix Formentor for his body of work
References
External links
- Biography (in French)
- Critical bibliography (Auteurs.contemporain.info) (in French)
- Book of literary shadows wins Goncourt prize
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- 1903 John Antoine Nau
- 1904 Léon Frapié
- 1905 Claude Farrère
- 1906 Jérôme Tharaud and Jean Tharaud
- 1907 Émile Moselly
- 1908 Francis de Miomandre
- 1909 Marius-Ary Leblond
- 1910 Louis Pergaud
- 1911 Alphonse de Châteaubriant
- 1912 André Savignon
- 1913 Marc Elder
- 1914 Adrien Bertrand
- 1915 René Benjamin
- 1916 Henri Barbusse
- 1917 Henry Malherbe
- 1918 Georges Duhamel
- 1919 Marcel Proust
- 1920 Ernest Pérochon
- 1921 René Maran
- 1922 Henri Béraud
- 1923 Lucien Fabre
- 1924 Thierry Sandre
- 1925 Maurice Genevoix
- 1926 Henri Deberly
- 1927 Maurice Bedel
- 1928 Maurice Constantin-Weyer
- 1929 Marcel Arland
- 1930 Henri Fauconnier
- 1931 Jean Fayard
- 1932 Guy Mazeline
- 1933 André Malraux
- 1934 Roger Vercel
- 1935 Joseph Peyré
- 1936 Maxence Van der Meersch
- 1937 Charles Plisnier
- 1938 Henri Troyat
- 1939 Philippe Hériat
- 1940 Francis Ambrière
- 1941 Henri Pourrat
- 1942 Marc Bernard
- 1943 Marius Grout
- 1944 Elsa Triolet
- 1945 Jean-Louis Bory
- 1946 Jean-Jacques Gautier
- 1947 Jean-Louis Curtis
- 1948 Maurice Druon
- 1949 Robert Merle
- 1950 Paul Colin
- 1951 Julien Gracq
- 1952 Béatrix Beck
- 1953 Pierre Gascar
- 1954 Simone de Beauvoir
- 1955 Roger Ikor
- 1956 Romain Gary
- 1957 Roger Vailland
- 1958 Francis Walder
- 1959 André Schwarz-Bart
- 1960 Vintilă Horia
- 1961 Jean Cau
- 1962 Anna Langfus
- 1963 Armand Lanoux
- 1964 Georges Conchon
- 1965 Jacques Borel
- 1966 Edmonde Charles-Roux
- 1967 André Pieyre de Mandiargues
- 1968 Bernard Clavel
- 1969 Félicien Marceau
- 1970 Michel Tournier
- 1971 Jacques Laurent
- 1972 Jean Carrière
- 1973 Jacques Chessex
- 1974 Pascal Lainé
- 1975 Émile Ajar (Romain Gary)
- 1976 Patrick Grainville
- 1977 Didier Decoin
- 1978 Patrick Modiano
- 1979 Antonine Maillet
- 1980 Yves Navarre
- 1981 Lucien Bodard
- 1982 Dominique Fernandez
- 1983 Frédérick Tristan
- 1984 Marguerite Duras
- 1985 Yann Queffélec
- 1986 Michel Host
- 1987 Tahar Ben Jelloun
- 1988 Érik Orsenna
- 1989 Jean Vautrin
- 1990 Jean Rouaud
- 1991 Pierre Combescot
- 1992 Patrick Chamoiseau
- 1993 Amin Maalouf
- 1994 Didier Van Cauwelaert
- 1995 Andreï Makine
- 1996 Pascale Roze
- 1997 Patrick Rambaud
- 1998 Paule Constant
- 1999 Jean Echenoz
- 2000 Jean-Jacques Schuhl
- 2001 Jean-Christophe Rufin
- 2002 Pascal Quignard
- 2003 Jacques-Pierre Amette
- 2004 Laurent Gaudé
- 2005 François Weyergans
- 2006 Jonathan Littell
- 2007 Gilles Leroy
- 2008 Atiq Rahimi
- 2009 Marie NDiaye
- 2010 Michel Houellebecq
- 2011 Alexis Jenni
- 2012 Jérôme Ferrari
- 2013 Pierre Lemaitre
- 2014 Lydie Salvayre
- 2015 Mathias Énard
- 2016 Leïla Slimani
- 2017 Éric Vuillard
- 2018 Nicolas Mathieu
- 2019 Jean-Paul Dubois
- 2020 Hervé Le Tellier
- 2021 Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
- 2022 Brigitte Giraud
- 2023 Jean-Baptiste Andrea