Philippe Claudel
Philippe Claudel (born 2 February 1962) is a French writer and film director. In addition to his writing, Claudel is a professor of literature at the University of Nancy. He directed the 2008 film I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime).
Philippe Claudel
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- Born
- 1962 · Dombasle-sur-Meurthe.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- writer · screenwriter · novelist · playwright · director
- Education
- University Nancy II
- Known for
- Brodeck's Report
- Honours
- Prix Erckmann-Chatrian · Feuille d'or de la ville de Nancy · Prix Roman France Télévisions · Prix Renaudot · Lire magazine's Best book of the year · Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle
- Languages
- French
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Life
Life
Much admired, it won the 2009 BAFTA for the best film not in English.
Philippe Claudel studied at University Nancy II. The recorded working language is French. Employment is recorded with University of Lorraine. Positions recorded include chairperson. Works named in the authority record are Brodeck's Report. Distinctions recorded are Prix Erckmann-Chatrian, Feuille d'or de la ville de Nancy, Prix Roman France Télévisions and Prix Renaudot.
After studying in Nancy, he remained there and for eleven years worked as a teacher in prisons. Contact with his students inspired short stories, novels, and then screenplays. He has said that the experience made him give up his simple opinions about people, about guilt, about the water to judge others. "It's clear to me now that it would have been impossible for me to write a novel like Brodeck's Report or Grey Souls, to make a movie like I've Loved You So Long, if I hadn't been in jail."
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Philippe Claudel (born 2 February 1962) is described as a writer, playwright, director and screenwriter in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. The birth of Philippe Claudel is recorded on 2 February 1962 in Dombasle-sur-Meurthe, France.
Novels
Novels
Quelques-uns des cent regrets: roman, Balland, 1999 Le Bruit des trousseaux (2002) Grey souls (Les Âmes grises) (2003); Librairie générale française, 2006, ISBN 978-2-253-10908-2. Grand prix des lectrices de Elle, Translator Adriana Hunter, Weidenfeld & Nicolson/Phoenix House, 2005, ISBN 978-0-297-84779-3. By a Slow River. Translated by Hoyt Rogers. Knopf. 2006. ISBN 9781400078011.; Random House Digital, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4000-7801-1 Monsieur Linh and His Child (La Petite Fille de Monsieur Linh), Translator Euan Cameron, Stock, 2005, ISBN 978-2-234-05774-6; Quercus, 2011, ISBN 978-1-906694-99-9 Brodeck's Report (Le Rapport de Brodeck), Translator John Cullen, 2007. The Investigator (L'Enquête), Paris, Stock, 2010, 278 p., ISBN 978-2234065154; Doubleday, 2012, Translator John Cullen, ISBN 978-0-385-53534-2 Parfums, 2012, Paris, Stock, 224 p. (ISBN 2234073251) L’Arbre du pays Toraja, 2016 (ISBN 978-2-2340-8150-5) (The Tree of the Toraja), Translator Euan Cameron, MacLehose Press Editions 2018 (ISBN 0-85705-770-7) Inhumaines, 2017, Stock, (ISBN 978-2253073956) L'Archipel du Chien, 2018, Stock (ISBN 978-2-234-08595-4)
Adaptations
Adaptations
Les Âmes grises, 2005, directed by Yves Angelo, with Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jacques Villeret. Distributed by Warner Bros.
Philippe Claudel à l'avant-première d' Il y a longtemps que je t'aime diffusée à l'UGC Ciné Cité Bercy, à Paris.
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Avant-première du film "Avant l'hiver": Anne Metzler, Daniel Auteuil, Leïla Bekhti, Philippe Claudel, Laure Killing.
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Films
I've Loved You So Long, 2008, with Kristin Scott Thomas and Elsa Zylberstein Tous les soleils, 2011, with Stefano Accorsi, Neri Marcorè, Lisa Cipriani, Clotilde Courau, Anouk Aimée Before the Winter Chill, 2013, with Kristin Scott Thomas, Daniel Auteuil and Leïla Bekhti A Childhood (2015)
Awards
His best-known work to date is the novel Les Âmes grises (Grey Souls), which won the Prix Renaudot in France, was shortlisted for the American Gumshoe Award, and won Sweden's Martin Beck Award. He won the 2003 Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle for Les petites mécaniques, and the 2010 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, for Brodeck’s Report, ' his hallucinatory story – almost a dark fairy-tale in which Kafka meets the Grimms – of an uneasy homecoming after wrenching tragedy." His debut film I've Loved You So Long won the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language. Claudel also won the César Award for Best First Feature Film for the film.
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- 1.Evene.fr. Philippe Claudel – EVENE. 2 February 1962.
- 2.Deseret News. French novelist follows inspirations wherever they lead. 2 July 2006.
- 3.Philippe Claudel. IMDb.
- 4.The Independent, 14 May 2010
- 5.The Independent, Friday 14 May 2010, Review Section p. 29
- 6.Granta Magazine. Claudel and Brodeck. 30 June 2010.
- 7.Philippe Claudel wins Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. The Independent. 14 May 2010.
- 8.Boyd Tonkin, Reports of love in a landscape of fear, The Independent, 14 May 2010
- 9.Incurablelogophilia.wordpress.com. Philippe Claudel – Le Rapport de Brodeck | Incurable Logophilia. 26 June 2009.
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