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Philippe Claudel

フィリップ・クローデル

Firippu Kurōderu

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1962-02-02 (Dombasle-sur-Meurthe)
Nationality
フランス, French
Languages
フランス語, French
Residence History
Dombasle-sur-Meurthe → Nancy

Career

Occupations
Novelist, Film director, Writer, Professor of literature, Prison teacher
Active Years
1999-
Affiliations
University of Nancy

Education

University of Nancy
Literature
Country: France
Studied literature in Nancy

Awards

Prix Renaudot
2003
Work: Les Âmes grises
Result: 受賞
Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle
2003
Work: Les petites mécaniques
Organization: Prix Goncourt
Result: 受賞
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
2010
Work: Brodeck's Report
Result: 受賞
Grand prix des lectrices de Elle
2003
Work: Grey Souls
Organization: Elle
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Les Âmes grises

2003 Novel

A story about a girl murdered in a rural French village during World War I.

GuiltRedemptionGrey souls
Adaptations
  • [Film] Les Âmes grises / Yves Angelo (2005)
Translations
  • English: Grey Souls, By a Slow River

Bibliography

  • Quelques-uns des cent regrets
  • Le Bruit des trousseaux
  • Les Âmes grises
  • Monsieur Linh and His Child
  • Brodeck's Report
  • L'Enquête
  • Parfums
  • L’Arbre du pays Toraja
  • Inhumaines
  • L'Archipel du Chien

Style & Themes

Literary Style
PoeticIntrospective
Recurring Motifs
GuiltIsolationHuman darkness

Legacy

Prominent French writer known for works inspired by his experience as a prison teacher. Successful filmmaker.

Trivia

  • His experience teaching in prisons inspired his writing.