Laurent Binet
Laurent Binet | |
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Born | (1972-07-19) 19 July 1972 (age 52) Paris, France |
Occupation | Writer, University lecturer |
Education | Literature |
Alma mater | University of Paris |
Laurent Binet (born 19 July 1972) is a French writer and university lecturer. His work focuses on the modern political scene in France.
Biography
The son of a historian,[1] Laurent Binet was born in Paris. He graduated from the University of Paris with a degree in Literature. He spent four years singing and playing guitar with a rock band named Stalingrad.[2] He teaches French in a Paris suburb and also at the University of Saint-Denis.
Binet was awarded the 2010 Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman for his first novel, HHhH.[3] The novel recounts the assassination of Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich in 1942.
In August 2012, Binet published Rien ne se passe comme prévu (Nothing goes as planned), a behind-the-scenes account of the successful presidential campaign of François Hollande, which Binet witnessed while embedded with Hollande's campaign staff. In 2015, he published his second novel, La septième fonction du langage, which was translated in 2017 as The Seventh Function of Language, a detective thriller dealing with a fictionalized account of Roland Barthes's death. In 2019, he published Civilizations, an alternative history novel about the conquest of Europe by Atahualpa. The novel was awarded the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 2019 and was published in English by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.[4] The English translation won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in 2022.[5]
Works
Novels
- HHhH (2010), Grasset, ISBN 978-2-246-76001-6
- The Seventh Function of Language (La Septième Fonction du langage) (2015), Grasset, ISBN 978-2-24677601-7
- Civilizations (2019), Grasset, ISBN 978-2-246-81309-5
- Perspective(s) (2023), Grasset, ISBN 9782246829355
Short stories
- "Forces et faiblesses de nos muqueuses" (2000), Le Manuscrit, ISBN 978-2-74810014-3
Non-fiction
- La Vie professionnelle de Laurent B. (2004), Little Big Man, autobiography, ISBN 978-2-915557-52-7
- Rien ne se passe comme prévu (2012), Grasset, politics, ISBN 978-2-24679933-7
- Dictionnaire amoureux du tennis (2020), with Antoine Benneteau, guide, ISBN 978-2-25927-686-3
Collective works
- Qu'est-ce que la gauche? (2017), Fayard, ISBN 978-2-21370458-6
Adaptations
- The Man with the Iron Heart (2017), film directed by Cédric Jimenez, based on novel HHhH
References
- ^ Valérie Trierweiler, October 18, 2010. "Laurent Binet, retour sur un succès", Paris Match
- ^ Grey, Tobias (18 August 2021). "How a French Novelist Turns the Tables on History". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
- ^ "Le prix Goncourt du premier roman attribué à Laurent Binet pour HHhH". Le Monde. March 2, 2010. Retrieved October 17, 2010.
- ^ "Civilizations".
- ^ "2022 Sidewise Award Winners". September 3, 2022. Retrieved October 23, 2022.
External links
- Laurent Binet at IMDb
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- 1915 Paul Acker
- 1916 Louis de Blois [fr]
- 1917 Charles Géniaux [fr]
- 1918 Camille Mayran [fr]
- 1919 Pierre Benoit
- 1920 André Corthis
- 1921 Pierre Villetard [fr]
- 1922 Francis Carco
- 1923 Alphonse de Châteaubriant
- 1924 Émile Henriot
- 1925 François Duhourcau
- 1926 François Mauriac
- 1927 Joseph Kessel
- 1928 Jean Balde [fr]
- 1929 André Demaison [fr]
- 1930 Jacques de Lacretelle
- 1931 Henri Pourrat
- 1932 Jacques Chardonne
- 1933 Roger Chauviré
- 1934 Paule Régnier
- 1935 Albert Touchard
- 1936 Georges Bernanos
- 1937 Guy de Pourtalès
- 1938 Jean de La Varende
- 1939 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- 1940 Édouard Peisson [fr]
- 1941 Robert Bourget-Pailleron
- 1942 Jean Blanzat
- 1943 Joseph-Henri Louwyck [fr]
- 1944 Pierre Lagarde [fr]
- 1945 Marc Blancpain [fr]
- 1946 Jean Orieux [fr]
- 1947 Philippe Hériat
- 1948 Yves Gandon [fr]
- 1949 Yvonne Pagniez
- 1950 Joseph Jolinon
- 1951 Bernard Barbey [fr]
- 1952 Henri Castillou [fr]
- 1953 Jean Hougron
- 1954 Pierre Moinot / Paul Mousset [fr]
- 1955 Michel de Saint Pierre [fr]
- 1956 Paul Guth
- 1957 Jacques de Bourbon Busset
- 1958 Henri Queffélec
- 1959 Gabriel d'Aubarède
- 1960 Christian Murciaux [fr]
- 1961 Phạm Văn Ký [fr; vi]
- 1962 Michel Mohrt
- 1963 Robert Margerit
- 1964 Michel Droit
- 1965 Jean Husson [fr]
- 1966 François Nourissier
- 1967 Michel Tournier
- 1968 Albert Cohen
- 1969 Pierre Moustiers
- 1970 Bertrand Poirot-Delpech
- 1971 Jean d'Ormesson
- 1972 Patrick Modiano
- 1973 Michel Déon
- 1974 Kléber Haedens
- 1975
- 1976 Pierre Schoendoerffer
- 1977 Camille Bourniquel
- 1978 Pascal Jardin
- 1979 Henri Coulonges
- 1980 Louis Gardel
- 1981 Jean Raspail
- 1982 Vladimir Volkoff
- 1983 Liliane Guignabodet [fr]
- 1984 Jacques-Francis Rolland [fr]
- 1985 Patrick Besson
- 1986 Pierre-Jean Rémy
- 1987 Frédérique Hébrard
- 1988 François-Olivier Rousseau
- 1989 Geneviève Dormann
- 1990 Paule Constant
- 1991 François Sureau
- 1992 Franz-Olivier Giesbert
- 1993 Philippe Beaussant
- 1994 Frédéric Vitoux
- 1995 Alphonse Boudard
- 1996 Calixthe Beyala
- 1997 Patrick Rambaud
- 1998 Anne Wiazemsky
- 1999 François Taillandier / Amélie Nothomb
- 2000 Pascal Quignard
- 2001 Éric Neuhoff
- 2002 Marie Ferranti
- 2003 Jean-Noël Pancrazi
- 2004 Bernard du Boucheron
- 2005 Henriette Jelinek [fr]
- 2006 Jonathan Littell
- 2007 Vassilis Alexakis
- 2008 Marc Bressant [fr]
- 2009 Pierre Michon
- 2010 Éric Faye [fr]
- 2011 Sorj Chalandon
- 2012 Joël Dicker
- 2013 Christophe Ono-dit-Biot [fr]
- 2014 Adrien Bosc [fr]
- 2015 Hédi Kaddour / Boualem Sansal
- 2016 Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre
- 2017 Daniel Rondeau
- 2018 Camille Pascal
- 2019 Laurent Binet
- 2020 Étienne de Montety
- 2021 François-Henri Désérable
- 2022 Giuliano da Empoli