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Elisa Shua Dusapin

エリーザ・シュア・デュサパン

Erīza Shua Dyusapan

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1992-10-23 （Sarlat-la-Canéda）
Nationality
France, Switzerland
Languages
French
Residence History
France → Switzerland

Career

Occupations
novelist, writer
Active Years
2011-2024

Awards

Prix Robert-Walser
2016
Work: Hiver à Sokcho
Result: 受賞
Prix Régine-Deforges
2017
Work: Hiver à Sokcho
Result: 受賞
Prix suisse de littérature
2019
Work: Les Billes du Pachinko
Result: 受賞
National Book Award for Translated Literature
2021
Work: Winter in Sokcho
Category: 翻訳文学部門
Organization: National Book Foundation
Result: 受賞
Prix Wepler
2023
Work: Le vieil incendie
Result: 受賞
Prix Fénéon
2023
Work: Le vieil incendie
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Hiver à Sokcho

2016 novel

A story set in Sokcho.

identityloneliness
Adaptations
  • [film] Winter in Sokcho / Koya Kamura (2024)
Translations
  • English: Winter in Sokcho (trans. Aneesa Abbas Higgins)

Bibliography

  • Hiver à Sokcho (2016)
  • Les Billes du Pachinko (2018)
  • Vladivostok Circus (2020)
  • Le vieil incendie (2023)
  • C'était une nuit de fièvre (2011)
  • Les Ursulines (2017)
  • L’œil sans paupière (2018)
  • Le Colibri (2022)
  • M'sieur Boniface (2015)
  • Olive en bulle (2018)
  • Le regard du Lièvre (2018)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
poeticdelicate
Recurring Motifs
cross-culturalfamily

Legacy

Internationally acclaimed Franco-Swiss writer.

Trivia

  • Franco-Korean descent writer.