Pierre Bergounioux
Illustration — Pierre Bergougnioux Pierre Bergounioux (born 1949 in Brive-la-Gaillarde, Corrèze) is a French writer. He won the 1986 Prix Alain-Fournier for his second novel, Ce pas et le suivant.
Pierre Bergounioux

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- Born
- 1949 · Brive-la-Gaillarde.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- writer · diarist · literary critic · teacher · sculptor
- Education
- École normale supérieure de lettres et sciences humaines · School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- Known for
- Miette
- Honours
- Grand prix de littérature de la SGDL · Prix Alain-Fournier · Prix de la langue française · Officer of Arts and Letters · Prix France Culture · Charles Brisset Literary Award
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Pierre Bergougnioux Pierre Bergounioux (born 1949 in Brive-la-Gaillarde, Corrèze) is a French writer. He won the 1986 Prix Alain-Fournier for his second novel, Ce pas et le suivant.
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Pierre Bergounioux studied at École normale supérieure de lettres et sciences humaines and School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. The recorded working language is French. René Descartes, Gustave Flaubert and William Faulkner are recorded as an influence. Works named in the authority record are Miette. Distinctions recorded are Grand prix de littérature de la SGDL, Prix Alain-Fournier, Prix de la langue française and Officer of Arts and Letters.
• Catherine, Gallimard (1984) • Ce pas et le suivant, Gallimard (1985) • La bête faramineuse, Gallimard (1986) • La maison rose, Gallimard (1987) • L'arbre sur la rivière, Gallimard (1988) • C'était nous, Gallimard (1989) • Johan Zoffany, Vénus sur les eaux, with Bernadette de Boysson, éditions William Blake & Co. (1990) • La mue, Gallimard (1991) • L'orphelin, Gallimard (1992) • Le matin des origines, Verdier (1992) • Le Grand Sylvain, Verdier (1993) • La Toussaint, Gallimard (1994) • La casse, Fata Morgana (1994) • Points cardinaux, Fata Morgana (1994) • L'immémorable, with Magdi Senadji, éditions À une soie (1994) • Au jour consumé, with Jean-Michel Fauquet, éditions Filigranes (1994) • Miette, Gallimard (1995); Folio (1996) • La cécité d'Homère. Cinq leçons de poétique, éditions Circé (1995) • D'abord, nous sommes au monde, with Alain Turpault, éditions du Laquet (1995) • Æneis, avec Philippe Ségéral, Fondation Paribas (1995) • La mort de Brune, Gallimard (1996) et Folio (1997) • Le chevron, Verdier (1996) • Haute tension, éditions William Blake & Co. (1996) • Le bois du chapitre, éditions Théodore Balmoral (1996) • Les choses mêmes, with François Pons, éditions Les Cahiers de l'Atelier (1996) • La ligne, Verdier (1997) • L'empreinte, éditions François Janaud (1997); Fata Morgana (2007) • La demeure des ombres, éditions Art & Arts (1997) • Kpélié, Les Flohic éditeurs (1997) • Conversations sur l'Isle, interviews with Tristan Hordé, éditions William Blake & Co. (1998) • La puissance du souvenir dans l'écriture. L'effet Zeigarnik, éditions Pleins Feux (2000) • Le premier mot, Gallimard (2001) • Les forges de Syam, éditions de l'Imprimeur (2001); Verdier poche (2007) • Simples, magistraux et autres antidotes, Verdier (2001) • Un peu de bleu dans le paysage, Verdier (2001) • B-17 G, Les Flohic éditeurs (2001), Argol (2006) • François, éditions François Janaud (2001) • Jusqu'à Faulkner, Gallimard (2002) • Aimer la grammaire, Nathan (2002) • L'héritage, interviews with Gabriel Bergounioux, Les Flohic éditeurs (2002) • Ordalies, with Jean-Michel Fauquet, éditions Filigranes (2002) • Back in the sixties, Verdier (2003) • Univers préférables, Fata Morgana (2003) • Bréviaire de littérature à l'usage des vivants, Bréal (2004) • Le fleuve des âges, Fata Morgana (2005) • Pycniques et leptosomes. Sur C.-A. Cingria, Fata Morgana (2005) • Carnet de notes. Journal 1980-1990, Verdier (2006) • L'invention du présent, Fata Morgana (2006) • La fin du monde en avançant, Fata Morgana (2006) • École: mission accomplie, éditions les Prairies ordinaires (2006) • Où est le passé, interview with Michel Gribinski, Éditions de l'Olivier(2007) • Carnet de notes. Journal 1991-2000, Verdier (2007) English translations of Pierre Bergounioux: Five of his novellas have been translated by Claude Neuman and published by Editions www.ressouvenances.fr: The Line (La ligne), Would-Be Hunter (Chasseur à la manque) and Childishnesses (Enfantillages) in 2022 under the collective title Of Fish and Game and Butterflies; B-17 G (B-17 G) together with The Witch’s Kiss (Le baiser de sorcière) in 2024.
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1949
Pierre Bergounioux born at Brive-la-Gaillarde.
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