Alain Defossé | |
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Born | 11 February 1957
Nantes, France |
Died | 14 May 2017
Paris, France | (aged 60)
Alma mater | Cours Florent |
Occupation(s) | Novelist, translator |
Alain Defossé (11 February 1957 – 14 May 2017) was a French novelist and translator.
Alain Defossé was born on 11 February 1957 in Nantes. [1] [2] [3] Early on, he was interested in music, jazz in particular, and also cinema, and he studied at the Cours Florent in Paris. [2] [4]
Defossé authored nine novels. His first novel, Les fourmis d'Anvers, was published in 1991. [2] He also translated several books from English into French. [2] For example, he translated Crazy Cock by Henry Miller in 1990. [2] He also translated American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis in 1993. [2] In 2006, he translated The Night Watch by Sarah Waters. [2] Two years later, in 2008, he translated Rant by Chuck Palahniuk. [2] Other novelists whose work he translated are Irvine Welsh and Joseph Connolly. [3]
In his books L'Homme en habit [The Man in Clothes] and On ne tue pas les gens [We Don't Kill People], Defossé discusses his homosexuality, telling an interviewer in 2015: "my books are, generally speaking, made up of disparate elements that I have kept, consciously or not, in a secret drawer and which, at a certain moment, reappear and aggregate until they form a story and a book ... in my novels, there are also a lot of ghosts, which are certainly my ghosts, but which are also ghosts which belong only to themselves". [4]
Defossé died on 14 May 2017 in Paris. [2] [3]
Alain Defossé | |
---|---|
Born | 11 February 1957
Nantes, France |
Died | 14 May 2017
Paris, France | (aged 60)
Alma mater | Cours Florent |
Occupation(s) | Novelist, translator |
Alain Defossé (11 February 1957 – 14 May 2017) was a French novelist and translator.
Alain Defossé was born on 11 February 1957 in Nantes. [1] [2] [3] Early on, he was interested in music, jazz in particular, and also cinema, and he studied at the Cours Florent in Paris. [2] [4]
Defossé authored nine novels. His first novel, Les fourmis d'Anvers, was published in 1991. [2] He also translated several books from English into French. [2] For example, he translated Crazy Cock by Henry Miller in 1990. [2] He also translated American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis in 1993. [2] In 2006, he translated The Night Watch by Sarah Waters. [2] Two years later, in 2008, he translated Rant by Chuck Palahniuk. [2] Other novelists whose work he translated are Irvine Welsh and Joseph Connolly. [3]
In his books L'Homme en habit [The Man in Clothes] and On ne tue pas les gens [We Don't Kill People], Defossé discusses his homosexuality, telling an interviewer in 2015: "my books are, generally speaking, made up of disparate elements that I have kept, consciously or not, in a secret drawer and which, at a certain moment, reappear and aggregate until they form a story and a book ... in my novels, there are also a lot of ghosts, which are certainly my ghosts, but which are also ghosts which belong only to themselves". [4]
Defossé died on 14 May 2017 in Paris. [2] [3]