Pierre Michon
Pierre Michon is a French writer. His first novel, Small Lives, is widely regarded as a genuine masterpiece in contemporary French literature. He has won several prizes for Small Lives and for The Origin of the World as well as for his body of work. His novels and stories have been translated into German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese, Polish, Serbian, Czech, Norwegian, Estonian, Japanese and English. He won the 2017 International Nonino Prize in Italy.
Works
- 1984: Small Lives.
- *Translated by Jody Gladding and Elizabeth Deshays for Archipelago Books, 2008.
- 1988: Life of Joseph Roulin.
- *Translated by Wyatt Mason for Mercury House and included in Masters and Servants, 1997.
- 1997: L'empereur d'Occident.
- 1990: Masters and Servants.
- *Translated by Wyatt Mason for Mercury House, 1997.
- 1991: Rimbaud the Son.
- *Translated by Jody Gladding and Elizabeth Deshays for Yale University Press, 2013.
- 1996: The Origin of the World.
- *Translated by Wyatt Mason for Mercury House, 2002.
- 1996: The King of the Wood.
- *Translated by Wyatt Mason for Mercury House and included in Masters and Servants, 1997.
- 1997: Trois auteurs.
- 1997: Winter Mythologies.
- *Translated by Ann Jefferson for Yale University Press, 2017.
- 2002: Abbots.
- *Translated by Ann Jefferson for Yale University Press, 2017.
- 2002: Corps du roi.
- 2007: Le roi vient quand il veut : propos sur la littérature.
- 2009: The Eleven.
- *Translated by Jody Gladding and Elizabeth Deshays for Archipelago Books, 2013.