You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (May 2015) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the French article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 6,168 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Jean Echenoz]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|fr|Jean Echenoz}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Find sources:  "Jean Echenoz" –  news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Jean Echenoz
Jean Echenoz in 2016
Born	26 December 1947 Orange, Vaucluse, France
Nationality	French
Occupation	Writer
Known for	I'm Off 1914

Jean Echenoz (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ɛʃ(ə)noz]; born 26 December 1947) is a French writer.

Biography

Jean Echenoz was born in Orange, Vaucluse, the son of a psychiatrist, ^[1] He studied in Rodez, Digne-les-Bains, Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille and Paris, where he has lived since 1970. He published his first book, Le Méridien de Greenwich in 1979, for which he received the Fénéon Prize in 1980. He has published twelve novels to date and received about ten literary prizes, including the Prix Médicis 1983 for Cherokee, the Prix Goncourt 1999 for I'm Gone (Je m'en vais), and the Aristeion Prize for Chopin's Move (Lac) (1989).

Works

Novels and narratives (récits)

• Le Méridien de Greenwich (Minuit, 1979)
• Cherokee (Minuit, 1983) (Godine, 1987; reprinted, University of Nebraska Press, 1994)
• L'Équipée malaise (Minuit, 1986) Double Jeopardy (Godine, 1993; reprinted, University of Nebraska Press, 1994)
• L'Occupation des sols (Minuit, 1988) Plan of Occupancy (Alyscamps Press, 1995)
• Lac (Minuit, 1989) Chopin's Move (Dalkey Archive, 2004)
• Nous trois (Minuit, 1992) We Three (Dalkey Archive, 2017)
• Les Grandes Blondes (Minuit, 1995) Big Blondes (The New Press, 1997)
• Un an (Minuit, 1997)
• Je m'en vais (Minuit, 1999) US: I'm Gone (The New Press, 2001); UK: I'm Off (Harvill, 2001)
• Jérôme Lindon (Minuit, 2001)
• Au piano (Minuit, 2003) Piano (The New Press, 2004)
• Ravel (Minuit, 2006) (The New Press, 2007)
• Courir (Minuit, 2008) Running (The New Press, 2009)
• Des éclairs (Minuit, 2010) Lightning (The New Press, 2011)
• 14 (Minuit, 2012) 1914 (The New Press, 2014)
• Caprice de la reine (Minuit, 2014) The Queen's Caprice (The New Press, 2015)
• Envoyée spéciale (Minuit, 2016) Special Envoy (The New Press, 2017)
• Vie de Gérard Fulmard (Minuit, 2020) Command Performance (New York Review Books, 2024)

Other publications

• "Ayez des amis", p. 49-70 in "New Smyrna Beach, Semaines de Suzanne" (Minuit, 1991)
• "J'arrive" in Le serpent à plumes, no. 3, 1992
• Les Éclairs (opera, adapted from Des éclairs), Minuit, 2021 ( ISBN  9782707347374)

External links

• Critical bibliography (Auteurs.contemporain.info)

References