Joël Egloff


Joël Egloff is a contemporary French writer and screenwriter.

Biography

After his baccalaureate, Joel Egloff studied history in Strasbourg and then enrolled in a school of cinema, the ESEC in Paris. He wrote scenarios and worked as assistant director. He is now devoted to writing. He is the author of five novels, including L'Étourdissement which got the Prix du Livre Inter 2005.
L’Homme que l’on prenait pour un autre combines strange poetry and black humor. It is the story of an individual with such an ordinary face and a face so common that he is "daily taken for someone else".

Work

Novels

Edmond Ganglion & fils
  1. Monaco, Paris: Éditions du Rocher, 1999, 162 p..
  2. Extrait in 12 extraits de romans de la rentrée, supplément de Lire n° 277 "spécial livres de poche", 07/1999, p. 37-43.
  3. Paris: Éd. France loisirs, 2000, 162 p.
  4. Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 2001, 162 p..
  5. Monaco; Paris : Éd. du Rocher, 2009, 162 p.. Ce que je fais là assis par terre
  6. Monaco; Paris : Éd. du Rocher, 2003, 154 p.. L'Étourdissement
  7. Paris : Buchet/Chastel, 2004, 142 p.
  8. Paris : le Grand livre du mois, 2005, 142 p.
  9. Paris : Éd. France loisirs, 2006, 187 p..
  10. Paris : Gallimard, 2006, 140 p.. L’Homme que l’on prenait pour un autre
  11. Paris: Buchet/Chastel, 2008, 202 p.
  12. Paris: Pocket, 2009, 153 p.. J’enquête
  13. Buchet-Chastel, 2016, 288 p.

Short stories

; Collection of short storiesLes Ensoleillés
  1. Monaco, Paris : Éd. du Rocher, 2000, 157 p..
  2. Paris, Gallimard, 2002, 157 p.. Libellules - de la Nouvelle 2012
  3. Paris : Buchet/Chastel, 2012, 192 p.
  4. Paris : Gallimard, 2014, 147 p..
; Short stories:
  • "Ta maison, l’assurance te la remboursera". Le Figaro littéraire, 20 July 2007.
  • "La Grande Réparation". In Bienvenue en Transylvanie : neuf histoires de vampires, anthologie. Points n° 2971, 2013.

Preface

La Source by Hubert Mingarelli. Sainte-Anastasie : Cadex, 2012, 52 p..

Prizes and awards

Adaptations of his works

Theatre

Short films

  • 2007: Les Ensoleillés. Direction Didier Massot. Jeu: sophie Bezard. Cadre: Loetitia Candellier. Duration: 8 min 42 s. Short film shot during a stage of leadership of actors. It is the result of a work done by the director with the actress Sophie Bezard on a monologue of the collection Les Ensoleillés.
  • 2014 : L’Étourdissement. Direction: Gérard Pautonnier. Production: Elzevir Films & Bactery Films. Duration: 23 min. With Arthur Dupont, Philippe Duquesne, Pascale Arbillot, Nicolas Vaude, Féodor Atkine, Miglen Mirtchev, Éric Bougnon, Marie Berto.