Jean Echenoz
Jean Echenoz is a French writer.
Biography
Jean Echenoz was born in Orange, Vaucluse, the son of a psychiatrist, 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, and the Aristeion Prize for Chopin's Move .Works
Novels and narratives (''récits'')
- Le Méridien de Greenwich
- Cherokee
- L'Équipée malaise ''Double Jeopardy
- L'Occupation des sols Plan of Occupancy
- Lac translated as Chopin's Move
- Nous trois We Three
- Les Grandes Blondes Big Blondes
- Un an
- Je m'en vais US: I'm Gone ; UK: I'm Off
- Jérôme Lindon
- Au piano Piano
- Ravel
- Courir Running
- Des éclairs Lightning
- 14 1914
- Caprice de la reine The Queen's Caprice
- Envoyée spéciale Special Envoy
- Vie de Gérard Fulmard Command Performance''
Other publications
- "Ayez des amis", p. 49-70 in "New Smyrna Beach, Semaines de Suzanne"
- "J'arrive" in Le serpent à plumes, no. 3, 1992
- Les Éclairs, Minuit, 2021