Éric Chevillard
Éric Chevillard (born 18 June 1964) is a French novelist. He has won awards for several novels including La nébuleuse du crabe in 1993, which won the Fénéon Prize for Literature. His work often plays with the codes of narration, sometimes to the degree that it is even difficult to understand which story is being told.
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Éric Chevillard
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- Éric Chevillard
- Born
- 18 June 1964
- Birthplace
- La Roche-sur-Yon, France
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Éric Chevillard (born 18 June 1964) is a French novelist. He has won awards for several novels including La nébuleuse du crabe in 1993, which won the Fénéon Prize for Literature. His work often plays with the codes of narration, sometimes to the degree that it is even difficult to understand which story is being told.
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His books have consequently been classified as postmodern literature. He has been noted for his associations with Les Éditions de Minuit, a publishing-house largely associated with the leading experimental writers composing in French today. Chevillard is an alumnus of the École supérieure de journalisme de Lille.
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• Name — Éric Chevillard • Born — 18 June 1964 • Birthplace — La Roche-sur-Yon, France
Awards and honors
• 2013 Best Translated Book Award, shortlist, Prehistoric Times
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- 1.Annuaire des anciens de l'ESJ, « Anciens | ESJ Lille »
- 2.Bibliothèque de l'ESJ, l'auteur Eric Chevillard est indiqué comme ancien élève : « Catalogue en ligne ».
- 3.Manon Quinti. Le prix Vialatte 2014 à Éric Chevillard. Livres Hebdo.
- 4.Associé un peu abusivement à l'art brut, il est mort en 1964 à La Roche-sur-Yon.
- 5.La valeur absolue. Chevillard et la mauvaise littérature. Critique. 8. 855-856. 716-731 lire en. 2018.
- 6.Voir sur publie.net.
- 7.Le prix Virilo à Chevillard. bibliobs.nouvelobs.com. 7/11/2011.
- 8.Voir sur publie.net.
- 9.Chaque oeuvre est tirée à une trentaine d'exemplaires. Voir la notice de recueil sur le catalogue général de la BnF.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 4
- Pierre Jourde, Empailler le toréador. L’incongru dans la littérature française, de Charles Nodier à Éric Chevillard, Paris, José Corti, coll. « Les Essais », 1999.
- Dominique Viart, Pierre Bayard, Bruno Blanckeman et Tiphaine Samoyault, Pour Éric Chevillard, Paris, Éditions de Minuit, 2014.
- Marc Daniel, Éric Chevillard. L’art de La Contre-Attaque, Paris, Éditions Le Manuscrit, coll. « L’Esprit des Lettres », 2014.
- Olivier Bessard-Banquy, Pierre Jourde (dir.), Éric Chevillard dans tous ses états, Paris, Classiques Garnier, Coll. « Rencontres », n° 140, 2015.
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