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Ivan Jablonka

イヴァン・ジャブロンカ

Ivan Jablonka

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1973-10-23 (Paris, France)
Nationality
French
Languages
French, English
Residence History
Paris, France

Career

Occupations
Historian, Writer, Professor
Active Years
2004-2024
Affiliations
Sorbonne Paris North University, Éditions du Seuil, La Vie des Idées

Education

École Normale Supérieure
History
Country: France

Awards

Senate Prize for History Books
2012
Work: Histoire des grands-parents que je n'ai pas eus
Organization: French Senate
Result: 受賞
Guizot Prize
2012
Work: Histoire des grands-parents que je n'ai pas eus
Organization: Académie française
Result: 受賞
Augustin-Thierry Prize
2012
Work: Histoire des grands-parents que je n'ai pas eus
Organization: Rendez-vous de l'Histoire
Result: 受賞
Literary Prize from Le Monde
2016
Work: Laëtitia ou la fin des hommes
Organization: Le Monde
Result: 受賞
Prix Médicis
2016
Work: Laëtitia ou la fin des hommes
Category: フランス小説部門
Result: 受賞
France Télévisions Prize for the Best Essay
2018
Work: En camping-car
Organization: France Télévisions
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Laëtitia ou la fin des hommes

2016 Non-fiction

An openly feminist book about the murder of 18-year-old girl Laëtitia.

Gender violenceFeminismPatriarchy
Translations
  • Translated into fifteen languages

Histoire des grands-parents que je n'ai pas eus

2012 Biography

Documents the fate of his grandparents, Jewish refugees from Poland murdered in Auschwitz.

HolocaustFamily historyJewish refugees
Translations
  • A History of the Grandparents I Never Had (English)

History Is a Contemporary Literature

2018 Manifesto

Argues that history can achieve rigor and audiences through literary narrative modes.

Historical writingSocial sciences and literature

A History of Masculinity: From Patriarchy to Gender Justice

2022 Social history

Reimagines masculinities, arguing men are trapped in a gender prison, guide to gender justice.

MasculinityGender justice

Bibliography

  • Les Vérités inavouables de Jean Genet
  • Ni père ni mère. Histoire des enfants de l'Assistance publique, 1874-1939
  • Enfants en exil : transfert de pupilles réunionnais en métropole, 1963-1982
  • Jeunesse oblige : histoire des jeunes en France, XIXe-XXIe siècle
  • Les Enfants de la République : l'intégration des jeunes de 1789 à nos jours
  • Nouvelles perspectives sur la Shoah
  • L'Enfant-Shoah
  • Le Corps des autres
  • Laëtitia ou La fin des hommes
  • En camping-car
  • Un garçon comme vous et moi
  • A History of the Grandparents I Never Had
  • History Is a Contemporary Literature
  • A History of Masculinity: From Patriarchy to Gender Justice

Translations of Works

  • Books translated into fifteen languages

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Literary history writingBroad narrative modesRhetorical figures
Recurring Motifs
Abandoned childrenWelfare stateGender violenceMasculinityFamily stories

Legacy

Renowned for innovative historical writing blending literature and social sciences. Professor and editor, books translated into 15 languages.

Trivia

  • His grandparents were Jewish refugees from Poland murdered in Auschwitz in 1943.