Nina Yargekov


Nina Yargekov is a French-Hungarian novelist and translator.

Life and career

Yargekov was born in France to Hungarian parents. She studied Sociology and is a translator and interpreter.
She published her first book in 2009, Tuer Catherine, published by, a novel which critics have labelled as somewhat autobiographical in nature, which led certain commentators to compare Yargekov to other well-known French authors such as Chloé Delaume and. Chloé Delaume had herself mentioned that she had followed Yargekov before the publication of her first novel, which she described as "an extremely unique voice. I followed her manuscript through all its different versions, and I am so happy that it will finally be published next winter through POL." In 2011, she published Vous serez mes témoins, a novel about 'fake identity in mourning'.
Her novel - the story of an amnesiac woman who finds herself in an airport with two passports, two cultures, two languages - was awarded the Prix de Flore on the 8 November 2016.
Also a musician and singer, Yargekov has since 2018 been part of the industrial rock group KNS with Samantha Barendson and Karim Kattan.

Works

Novels

Tuer Catherine,, 2009Vous serez mes témoins, éditions P.O.L, 2011, éditions P.O.L, 2016 - winner of the 2016 Prix de Flore

Collections

L'autre Iseut, published in Et encore un livre, directed by Marie Darrieussecq, Centre Dramatique National d’Orléans, 2009Comme Erika, published in Mon corps est un champ de bataille, Ma colère, 2009Panoplie argumentative, published in Alim, directed by Émilie Notéris, IMHO, 2010Y comme Yourcenar, published in Un livre peut en cacher un autre, alphabet book illustrated by Christian Lacroix and sold in bookshops, 2014

Journals

Publications in the journals Cahier critique de poésie, Korunk, Rouge-déclic, Raise magazine, TINA...