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Jean Echenoz

Jean Echenoz (; born 26 December 1947) 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, ' 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 ', the Prix Goncourt 1999 for I'm Gone (Je m'en vais), and the Aristeion Prize for ' (Lac) (1989).

Works

Novels and narratives (récits)

  • ' (Minuit, 1979)
  • ' (Minuit, 1983) (Godine, 1987; reprinted, University of Nebraska Press, 1994)
  • ' (Minuit, 1986) Double Jeopardy (Godine, 1993; reprinted, University of Nebraska Press, 1994)
  • ' (Minuit, 1988) Plan of Occupancy (Alyscamps Press, 1995)
  • ' (Minuit, 1989) translated as Chopin's Move (Dalkey Archive, 2004)
  • Nous trois (Minuit, 1992) We Three (Dalkey Archive, 2017)
  • ' (Minuit, 1995) Big Blondes (The New Press, 1997)
  • ' (Minuit, 1997)
  • Je m'en vais (Minuit, 1999) US: I'm Gone (The New Press, 2001); UK: I'm Off (Harvill, 2001)
  • Jérôme Lindon (Minuit, 2001)
  • ' (Minuit, 2003) Piano (The New Press, 2004)
  • ' (Minuit, 2006) (The New Press, 2007)
  • ' (Minuit, 2008) Running (The New Press, 2009)
  • ' (Minuit, 2010) Lightning (The New Press, 2011)
  • ' (Minuit, 2012) 1914 (The New Press, 2014)
  • ' (Minuit, 2014) The Queen's Caprice (The New Press, 2015)
  • ' (Minuit, 2016) Special Envoy (The New Press, 2017)
  • ' (Minuit, 2020) Command Performance (New York Review Books, 2024)

Other publications

  • "Ayez des amis", p. 49-70 in "New Smyrna Beach, Semaines de Suzanne" (Minuit, 1991)
  • "J'arrive" in Le serpent à plumes, no. 3, 1992
  • Les Éclairs (opera, adapted from Des éclairs), Minuit, 2021 ()

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