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Pascal Quignard

パスカル・キニャール

Pasukaru Kinyāru

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1948-04-23 (Verneuil-sur-Avre, Eure)
Nationality
フランス
Languages
French

Career

Occupations
Writer
Active Years
1969-

Awards

Prix des Critiques
1980
Work: Carus
Result: 受賞
Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française
2000
Work: Terrasse à Rome
Organization: Académie française
Result: 受賞
Prix Goncourt
2002
Work: Les Ombres errantes
Result: 受賞
Grand prix Jean Giono
2006
Work: Villa Amalia
Result: 受賞
Prix Formentor
2023
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Tous les matins du monde

1991 Fiction

A novel about 17th-century viola da gamba player Marin Marais and his teacher Sainte-Colombe.

MusicHistory
Adaptations
  • [Film] Tous les matins du monde / Alain Corneau (1991)
Translations
  • All the World's Mornings

Adaptations

  • Tous les matins du monde (film, 1991)

Translations by Author

  • Porcius Latro (Latin), Kong-souen Long (Chinese), Lycophron (Greek)

Translations of Works

  • Numerous English translations, e.g., The Roving Shadows, All the World's Mornings

Legacy

A prominent French writer who won the Prix Goncourt and other major literary prizes. Known for his essays and novels, including the 'Little Treatises' series.

In Popular Culture

  • Widely known through the film adaptation of Tous les matins du monde

Trivia

  • The 'Little Treatises' consist of eighty-four short essays.
  • The film Tous les matins du monde sold over 2 million tickets in its first year in France.