Patrick Deville


Patrick Deville is a French writer.

Life

After studying comparative literature and philosophy at the University of Nantes, Deville lived in the Middle East, Nigeria and Algeria. In the 1990s, he travelled frequently to Cuba and Uruguay.
In 1996, he created the literary review Meet.
In 2011, the editors of Lire magazine selected Kampuchea as the best French novel of the year.
In 2012, his novel Plague and Cholera was one of the most discussed books of the literary season. It was a finalist for several French prizes, and received both the Fnac Prize and the Prix Femina.
His books have been translated into a dozen languages.

Works

Œnologie et crus des vins, with Roger Piallat, Éditions Jérôme Villette 1996.Cordon-bleu, Editions de Minuit 1987
  • * Das Perspektiv. Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, 1989,
  • * El Catalejo, Translator Javier Albiñana, Anagrama, 1990, Le Feu d'artifice, Editions de Minuit 1992
  • * Los Fuegos artificiales, Edicions 62, 1994,
  • * 花火, 白水社, 1994, La Femme parfaite,, Editions de Minuit 1995 Ces deux-là, Editions de Minuit, 2000 Pura vida: vie & mort de William Walker, Seuil, 2004
  • * Pura vida: Vida y muerte de William Walker, Seix Barral, 2005, La Tentation des armes à feu, Seuil, 2006 Equatoria, Seuil, 2009, Kampuchéa, Seuil, 2011, Vie et mort sainte Tina l'exilée, editions publie.net, 2011 Peste et Choléra, Seuil, 2012. Viva, Seuil, 2014. Taba-Taba, Seuil, 2017.Amazonia, Seuil, 2019.