Hervé Le Tellier

He won the 2020 Prix Goncourt for The Anomaly.

Hervé Le Tellier studied at Centre de formation des journalistes and Paris Diderot University. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is literary activity, journalism and mathematics. Employment is recorded with Le Monde. Distinctions recorded are Prix de l'Humour noir and Prix Goncourt.

• Name — Hervé Le Tellier • Born — 21 April 1957 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Occupation — * Novelist • poet • journalist • Language — French • Education — Centre de formation des journalistes de Paris • Movement — Oulipo • Awards — Prix Goncourt (2020)

Born in Paris, Le Tellier started his career as a scientific journalist, and joined Oulipo in 1992. As an author, he came to general attention in 1998 with the publication in France of his book Les amnésiques n'ont rien vécu d'inoubliable, a collection of one thousand very short sentences all beginning with "Je pense que" (I think that), published in English as A Thousand Pearls (for a Thousand Pennies). His rather complex novel Le voleur de nostalgie is a tribute to the Italian writer Italo Calvino. He is also one of the participants of Papous dans la tête, the cult literary quiz of France Culture, the French cultural radio station. He became in 2002 a daily contributor to the website of the newspaper Le Monde with a short satirical chronicle called Papier de verre ("sandpaper"). He founded, with Frederic Pages and others, the "Association of Friends of Jean-Baptiste Botul" to promote this fictitious philosopher and his school of "Botulism". One of his most recent publications is Esthétique de l’Oulipo (The Aesthetics of Oulipo), a very personal essay on literature under constraint, considered from a linguistic perspective. Seven of his books have been translated into English, from Enough about love (Other Press) to The Sextine Chapel (Dalkey Archive).

• The Sextine Chapel, translated by Ian Monk, Dalkey Archive Press, 2011. • A Thousand Pearls (for a Thousand Pennies), translated by Ian Monk, Dalkey Archive Press, 2011,. • Enough About Love, translated by Adriana Hunter, Other Press, 2011, • The Intervention of a Good Man, translated by Adriana Hunter, Other Press, 2011, • Electrico W, translated by Adriana Hunter, Other Press, 2013,. For her translation, Adriana Hunter won the 27th Annual Translation Prize founded by the French-American Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation. • All happy families, translated by Adriana Hunter, Other Press, March 2019,. • Atlas inutilis, in French Contes liquides, "Fluid fables", translated by Cole Swensen, Black Square Editions, 2018,. • The Anomaly, translated by Adriana Hunter, Other Press, November 2021,.

• Oulipo Compendium, Atlas Press, 1998 • Winter Journeys, Atlas Press, 2000

Indexed under French Literature and Critical Theory, French Literature and Poetry, Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research, Social Policies and Family, Education, sociology, and vocational training. Recorded as journalist, writer, poet, literary critic and mathematician.