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Thierry Jonquet

ティエリー・ジョンケ

Tierī Jonke

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1954-01-19 (Paris)
Died
2009-08-09 (Paris) age 55
Nationality
France
Languages
French
Religion
Unknown
Residence History
Paris

Career

Occupations
novelist, crime fiction writer
Active Years
1982-2009

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Mygale

1984 crime novel

A crime novel with political themes. Published in the US in 2003 by City Lights, and in the UK as Tarantula in 2005.

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Adaptations
  • [film] The Skin I Live In / Pedro Almodóvar (2011)
Translations
  • English: Mygale (Donald Nicholson-Smith); Tarantula

Bibliography

  • Mémoire en cage (1982)
  • Ils sont votre épouvante et vous êtes leur crainte (2006)
  • Mon vieux (2005)
  • Comedia (2005)
  • Jours tranquilles à Belleville (2003)
  • Le manoir des immortelles (2003)
  • Ad vitam aeternam (2002)
  • Le bal des débris (2000)
  • Rouge c'est la vie (1998)
  • Les orpailleurs (1993)
  • La Bête et la Belle (1985)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Style specializing in crime novels with political themes

Legacy

French writer specializing in crime novels with political themes. His most famous work Mygale was adapted into a film by Pedro Almodóvar.

In Popular Culture

  • Mygale adapted as The Skin I Live In by Pedro Almodóvar.