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Claude Durand

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Claude Durand

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1938-01-01
Died
2015-01-01 age 77
Nationality
French
Languages
French
Residence History
Paris

Career

Occupations
publisher, translator, writer, film editor
Active Years
1957-2015
Affiliations
Éditions Fayard
Influenced
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Michel Houellebecq

Awards

Prix Médicis
1979
Work: La Nuit zoologique
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

La Nuit zoologique

1979 novel

Agent de Soljenitsyne

2011 non-fiction

Bibliography

  • La Nuit zoologique
  • Agent de Soljenitsyne

Translations by Author

  • One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez)

Legacy

French publisher, translator, and writer who published leading authors such as Solzhenitsyn and Houellebecq, and together with his wife Carmen translated the standard French edition of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. Won the Prix Médicis in 1979 for his novel La Nuit zoologique.

Trivia

  • Co-translated the standard French edition of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude with his wife Carmen.
  • Acted as Solzhenitsyn's literary agent at Editions Fayard since 2003.