Philippe Di Folco
Illustration — Philippe Di Folco Philippe Di Folco (born 20 June 1964 in Choisy-le-Roi) is a French author and teacher.
Philippe Di Folco

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- 1964 · Choisy-le-Roi.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- linguist · poet · translator · essayist · screenwriter · novelist · journalist
- Education
- School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences · Paris 12 University
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Philippe Di Folco Philippe Di Folco (born 20 June 1964 in Choisy-le-Roi) is a French author and teacher.
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Born and raised in Val de Marne, near Paris, France, Philippe Di Folco studied Economics and Literature at School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (Paris). From 1988 to 1997, he was an academic publishing production manager for several companies such as Addison-Wesley. He met Jean-François Bizot, CEO of Novapress in 1997, writing and producing for magazines and radio. In 2003, he was invited to The Frye Festival. He is co-author of On Tour with Mathieu Amalric: the film won an award at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. Di Folco was nominated for the César Award for Best Original Screenplay 2010. Since 2010, he has been teaching creative writing at École Estienne, Le Havre Art School. He is the author in 2014 of the first biography about the French millionnaire Jacques Lebaudy, the "Emperor of the Sahara", who was shot by his wife in Long Island in 1919. He is co-author of Barbara with Mathieu Amalric: they were nominated for the César Award for Best Original Screenplay 2018.
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• 2009: Traduire l'Éros / Translating Eros, Montreal, Concordia University Press

Philippe Di Folco lors d'un colloque en mai 2019 à l'université Diderot (Paris).
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Selected bibliography
• 2005: Dictionnaire de la Pornographie (Dictionary of Pornography), Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, foreword: Jean-Claude Carrière, translated into Greek, Romanian, Italian • 2008: We Love Books! A World Tour, Échirolles: Centre Européen du Graphisme • 2010: Dictionnaire de la Mort (Dictionary of Death), Paris: Éditions Larousse • 2011: Petit traité de l'imposture (About Imposture), Paris: Éditions Larousse • 2014: L'Empereur du Sahara (a biography of Jacques Lebaudy), Paris: Galaade Editions, • 2014: Criminels. Histoires vraies, Paris: Sonatine éditions/Perrin,
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- 1.« De Chagrin, de Vent et de Frissons », Kosmospalast, 10 septembre 2012.
- 2.Biographie certifiée, Agence Aartis.
- 3.Dont : « Que devient la musique quand elle disparaît » (Nuits magnétiques, 13/04/1998) ; « Je ne suis pas là mais... le répondeur » (Nuits magnétiques, 25/11/1998) ; « Blanche est la nuit » (Nuits magnétiques 16/04/1999) avec Gilles Châtelet ; « Géopolitique d'un centre commercial » (État de fait, 2/04/2000) ; « Les Indiens des plaines » (Du jour au lendemain, 2/09/2000) ; « Mémoires de cuisines » (État de faits, 25/12/2000) ; « Alchimie de l'épuisement » (Surpris par la nuit, 16/12/2003)
- 4.Liste des auteurs invités depuis 2000.
- 5.Patrick Kéchichian, « Penser la pornographie », Le Monde, 10 novembre 2005.
- 6.César 2011 - Les nominations des César sur le site de Première le 21 janvier 2011.
- 7.« Leçon de cinéma », avec Mathieu Amalric et Philippe Di Folco, Rencontres Henri-Langlois, par Marc Ory, I-médias - Décembre 2007 http://vimeo.com/12021864
- 8.cf. le prog. du Centre du graphisme d’Échirolles
- 9.« In memoriam - Nuits avec la mort », sur Fabula.
- 10.Philippe-Jean Catinchi, Le Monde des Livres, 13 avril 2013.
- 11.« Chronique poches de François Angelier », Le Mondes des livres, 8 avril 2023.
- 12.French Film Festival: Actor Mathieu Amalric on his new film, Barbara. The Sydney Morning Herald. 2018-02-28.
- 13.Agenda, juin 2019, sur Kanal Brussels.
- 14.« Inès Di Folco », Sissi-Club.
- 15.Traduit en italien, grec, roumain, espagnol, brésilien et anglais.
- 16.cf. Entretien vidéo avec Baptiste Houssin
- 17.Comportant des photographies et des dessins inédits ainsi que des nouvelles signées Pierre-Antoine Bernheim, Jacques Jouet, Lucien Suel, Barbara Israël, Carole Martinez, Jean-Bernard Pouy, Anne Goscinny, Christine Montalbetti, Pierre Tilman, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Guy Konopnicki, Jacques Gaillard, Hubert Haddad, Philippe Lacoche
- 18.Entretiens avec Agnès b, Agathe Gaillard, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Farid Chenoune, Vincent Grégoire, Patrick Thévenin, Philippe Manœuvre, Nicolas Saada, Gérard Laizé, Stéphane Natkin, Emmanuel Rubin.
- 19.Voir l'article Créteil Soleil, cadre principal du roman
- 20.En 2009, par Eduardo Esposito avec des illustrations de Barbla et Peter Fraefel (éd. Giordano Bruno, Campania)
- 21.Productions Mandrake Films.
- 22.Communiqué « Créteil soutient la créativité » d'Aude Le Douarin.
- 23.Dirigés par Laurence Cousteix et soutenus par l'Action culturelle de la ville, ces films ont été projetés au Cinéma du Palais.
- 24.La Biche morte, base IMDB.
- 25.avec Claire Balay, Odile Chambaut, Michel Bouvet, Diego Zaccaria
- 26.« La pornographie est-elle une esthétique ? ».
- 27.Sommaire 47, Epistolaire.org.
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