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第26回（1973年） Winner
Jean-Patrick Manchette
ジャン＝パトリック・マンシェット
Jean-Patrick Manchette
ペンネーム:
General-Baron Staff（Pen name for mind games column）,
Shuto Headline（Pen name for film criticism and crime fiction columns）
プロフィール
- 性別
- 男性
- 生誕
- 1942-12-19 （Marseille）
- 死没
- 1995-06-03 （Paris） 52歳
- 国籍
- French
- 言語
- French, English
- 宗教
- Unknown
- 居住地歴
- Marseille → Malakoff (Paris suburbs) → Paris
経歴
- 職業
- novelist, screenwriter, translator, critic
- 活動期間
- 1965年〜1995年
- 所属
- Éditions Gallimard Série Noire
- 影響を受けた人物
- Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Situationist International
- 影響を与えた人物
- Modern French crime fiction authors
学歴
| 学校 | 学部 | 学科 | 学位 | 期間 | 国 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| École normale supérieure | — | Literature | — | — | France |
École normale supérieure
Literature
国:
France
Dropped out without graduating
受賞歴
| 年 | 賞名 | 対象作品 | 部門 | 主催 | 結果 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Grand Prix de Littérature Policière | O dingos, O chateaux! | — | French Crime Fiction Award Committee | winner |
Grand Prix de Littérature Policière
1973
対象作品:
O dingos, O chateaux!
主催:
French Crime Fiction Award Committee
結果:
winner
受賞・候補エディション
作品
代表作
The Mad and the Bad
1972年 crime fictionA fragile young woman and a billionaire's nephew are chased by a psychopathic killer, critiquing social issues.
social criticismviolencehuman condition
映像化・舞台化
- [film] Folle à tuer / Yves Boisset (1975)
翻訳
- English translation by Donald Nicholson-Smith
全著作
- Let the Corpses Tan (1971)
- The N'Gustro Affair (1971)
- The Mad and the Bad (1972)
- Nada (1973)
- No Room at the Morgue (1973)
- Skeletons in the Closet (1976)
- 3 to Kill (1976)
- Fatale (1977)
- The Prone Gunman (1981)
- Ivory Pearl (1996, posthumous)
翻案
- Nada (1974, dir. Claude Chabrol)
- Three Men to Kill (1980, dir. Jacques Deray)
- The Gunman (2015, dir. Pierre Morel)
作家による翻訳
- French translation of Watchmen
作品の翻訳
- Nine novels translated to English
作風・主題
- 文体
- behaviorist styleneo-polarconcise and violent prose
- 頻出モチーフ
- analysis of social positions and culturebursts of violenceleft-wing political views
健康
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cancer1990年代初頭Cause of death, leaving unfinished novel
評価・遺産
Credited with reinventing French crime fiction as the father of 'neo-polar'.
大衆文化への影響
- Numerous film adaptations, including starring Alain Delon
- Comic adaptations by Jacques Tardi
引用
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After that, as I did not have to belong to any kind of literary school, I entered a very different work area. In seven years, I have not done anything good. I'm still working at it.
出典: 1988 letter to a journalist (1988年)
豆知識
- Jazz enthusiast who played tenor and alto saxophone
- Lifelong interest in chess and strategy games
- Translated Alan Moore's Watchmen into French
- Edited a science fiction novel line