Jean Echenoz (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ɛʃ(ə)noz]; born 26 December 1947) is a French writer.

Jean Echenoz
Jean Echenoz in 2016
Born26 December 1947
NationalityFrench
OccupationWriter
Known forI'm Off
1914

Biography

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Jean Echenoz was born in Orange, Vaucluse, the son of a psychiatrist,[1] He studied in Rodez, Digne-les-Bains, Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille and Paris, where he has lived since 1970. He published his first book, Le Méridien de Greenwich in 1979, for which he received the Fénéon Prize in 1980. He has published twelve novels to date and received about ten literary prizes, including the Prix Médicis 1983 for Cherokee, the Prix Goncourt 1999 for I'm Gone (Je m'en vais), and the Aristeion Prize for Chopin's Move (Lac) (1989).

Works

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Novels and narratives (récits)

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Other publications

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  • "Ayez des amis", p. 49-70 in "New Smyrna Beach, Semaines de Suzanne" (Minuit, 1991)
  • "J'arrive" in Le serpent à plumes, no. 3, 1992
  • Les Éclairs (opera, adapted from Des éclairs), Minuit, 2021 (ISBN 9782707347374)
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References

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  1. ^ Mary Hawthorne (14 May 2015). "The Idiosyncratic Fictions of Jean Echenoz". The New Yorker.