Grégoire Polet
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Grégoire Polet is a Belgian writer and poet.
Biography
Also a translator, Grégoire is a Doctor of Arts of the Université catholique de Louvain, specializing in Spanish literature. He is now a full-time writer and lives in Barcelona. For his inspiration he often found himself in the cities that concerned his history: when he wrote Madrid ne dort pas, his first book, he rented an apartment in Madrid. The same goes for Chucho whose action takes place in Barcelona.At Lycée Martin V in Louvain-la-Neuve, he was fellow with writer. Their novels manifestly maintain close relations: often choral novels, written in the present of the indicative, very numerous and recurring characters from one book to another, always staged in urban areas, with a predilection for the representation of the simultaneity of destinies in an urban context.
Works
Novels
- 2005: Madrid ne dort pas, Éditions Gallimard, 2005.
- 2006: Excusez les fautes du copiste, Gallimard, 2006. Prix spécial Écrivain de la Fondation Jean-Luc Lagardère.
- 2008: Leurs vies éclatantes, Gallimard, prix Indications du jeune critique 2008. Prix Fénéon 2007. Prix Grand-Chosier 2007. Novel niminated in the first selection of prix Goncourt 2007.
- 2009: Chucho, Gallimard, prix Sander Pierron of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique.
- 2010: Petit éloge de la gourmandise, collection folio
- 2012: Les Ballons d'hélium, Gallimard
- 2015: Barcelona!, Gallimard, prix Amerigo-Vespucci at the.
- 2022: Petit éloge de la Belgique, Gallimard
Translations
- 2007: Juan Valera, Pepita Jiménez, Geneva, Editions Zoé