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Éric Faye

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Éric Faye

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1963-12-03 （Limoges）
Nationality
フランス, French
Languages
French
Residence History
Limoges → Paris

Career

Occupations
novelist, essayist
Active Years
1991-2025
Influenced By
Franz Kafka, Ismaïl Kadaré, George Orwell

Awards

Prix des Deux Magots
1998
Work: Je suis le gardien du phare
Organization: Deux Magots
Result: winner
Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française
2010
Work: Nagasaki
Organization: Académie française
Result: winner
Prix Unesco-Françoise Gallimard
1999
Work: Croisière en mer des pluies
Organization: UNESCO
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Nagasaki

2010 novel

A novel set in Nagasaki, based on real events.

lonelinessnuclearhuman relations
Adaptations
  • [graphic novel] Nagasaki / Agnès Hostache
  • [theater] Nagasaki / Olivier Cruveiller (2023)

Éclipses japonaises

2016 novel 230 pages

Novel about Japanese abductions by North Korean agents in the 1970s-80s.

abductionJapanreality

La Télégraphiste de Chopin

2019 novel 261 pages

Inspired by the life of medium Rosemary Brown, set in Prague.

mediumshipmusicmystery

Bibliography

  • Ismaïl Kadaré, Prométhée porte-feu
  • Entretiens avec Ismaïl Kadaré
  • Dans les laboratoires du pire
  • Le Général Solitude
  • Le Sanatorium des malades du temps
  • Parij
  • Je suis le gardien du phare
  • Le Mystère des trois frontières
  • Croisière en mer des pluies
  • Les Cendres de mon avenir
  • Le Syndicat des pauvre types
  • Nagasaki

Translations by Author

  • La Vie avec Marianne (Xaver Bayer)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
fantasticabsurdconcise
Recurring Motifs
solitudetimetravel

Legacy

French novelist known for blending fantasy and reality. Winner of Académie française Grand Prix.

Trivia

  • First short story published in 1992.
  • Expert on Japanese literature and cinema.