François Garde (born 1959 in
Le Cannet
Le Cannet (; oc, Lo Canet; older it, Canneto) is a commune of the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France.
Administration
Le Cannet was part of Cannes until 1778, when it was made a separate commune.
Location
Le Cannet is locate ...
, Alpes-Maritimes) is a French writer and high-ranking official
Administrative career
* Graduated in 1984 of the
ENA
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Education
* École nationale d'administration, French Grande école, for civil service
* Education Networks of America, Internet service provider
Fictional characters
* Ena Sharples, from the British soap opera ''Coron ...
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Louise Michel
Louise Michel (; 29 May 1830 – 9 January 1905) was a teacher and important figure in the Paris Commune. Following her penal transportation to New Caledonia she embraced anarchism. When returning to France she emerged as an important French a ...
),
* Deputy Secretary-General of New Caledonia from 1991 to 1993
* Administrator-Superior of French Southern and Antarctic Lands (from 25 May 2000 to 19 December 2004)
* Secretary-General of the Government of
New-Caledonia
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, August 2009 – August 2010,
* Vice-President of the Administrative court at
Dijon
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Grenoble
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Works
Garde began to write at the age of over forty years and since 2003 has published various books and two novels.
Essays
*2003: ''Les Institutions de la Nouvelle-Calédonie''.,
*2006: ''Paul-Émile Victor et la France de l'Antarctique''.,
*2015: ''La Baleine dans tous ses états''.
Novels
*2012: '.
**
prix Goncourt du premier roman
The Prix Goncourt (french: Le prix Goncourt, , ''The Goncourt Prize'') is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year". The prize carries a symbolic reward o ...
2012
**
grand prix Jean-Giono
The Grand prix Jean Giono () is a French literary prize. It was established in 1990 at the initiative of Michel Albert, to honour the writer Jean Giono. Since 1992 it consists of two categories: the Jean Giono Grand Prize (Grand prix Jean Giono) a ...
2012.
** prix littéraire des grands espaces Maurice Dousset 2012
** prix
Hortense Dufour 2012.
**
prix Edmée de La Rochefoucauld 2012
**
prix Emmanuel Roblès 2012
**
prix Amerigo Vespucci 2012.
** prix Ville de Limoges 2012.
François Garde : ''L’essentiel, c’est d’écrire et pas d’avoir des prix…'
*2013: ''Pour trois couronnes'', Gallimard
*2016: ''L’Effroi'', Gallimard
References
External links
François Garde
on France Inter
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Entretien avec François Garde
on La Cause littéraire
on France Culture
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Stations
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* France Inter — Radio France's " generalist" sta ...
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École nationale d'administration alumni
21st-century French non-fiction writers
Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman recipients
Grand prix Jean Giono recipients
Prix Emmanuel Roblès recipients
1959 births
People from Le Cannet
Living people