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Antoine Chainas

あんとうぁーぬ・しぇいなす

Antoine Chainas

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1971 (Nice)
Nationality
France
Languages
French
Residence History
Nice

Career

Occupations
Novelist, Translator
Active Years
2007-2024
Affiliations
Éditions Gallimard, Série noire

Awards

Grand prix de littérature policière
2014
Work: Pur
Result: winner
Prix des lecteurs Quais du polar
2010
Work: Anaisthêsia
Organization: Quais du polar / 20 minutes
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Pur

2013 Crime fiction

A crime novel depicting a pure world.

PurityCrime

Empire des chimères

2018 Crime fiction

Story set in a chimeric empire.

FantasyCrime

Bibliography

  • Aime-moi Casanova
  • Versus
  • Anaisthêsia
  • Pur
  • Empire des chimères
  • Bois-aux-renards

Translations by Author

  • La Belle Vie (High Life)
  • Prise directe (Plugged)
  • Empty Mile
  • Plein Gaz (Throttle)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Dynamic narrativeTension typical of crime novels
Recurring Motifs
Crime and humanityDark side of modern society

Legacy

Key author in Série noire collection, prominent in French crime fiction, Grand Prix winner.

Trivia

  • Debuted in 2007.
  • Active in Gallimard's Série noire.