Frédéric Boyer (born 2 March 1961,

Cannes Cannes (, ; , ; ) is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a communes of France, commune located in the Alpes-Maritimes departments of France, department, and host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, and Cannes Lions Internatio ...

) is a French author of novels, poems, essays, and translations.

Biography

A former student of the École normale supérieure de Fontenay Saint-Cloud, he coordinated the ''Bible Nouvelle Traduction'' (Bayard, 2001), with Olivier Cadiot, Jean Echenoz,

Florence Delay Florence Delay (; born 19 March 1941 in Paris) is a French writer. She has been a member of the Académie française since 2000. She has notably written novels, essays and plays (in collaboration with Jacques Roubaud) and has translated texts f ...

, Jacques Roubaud, and others. He proposed new translations of the '' Confessions'' by

Augustine of Hippo Augustine of Hippo ( , ; ; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430) was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa. His writings deeply influenced the development of Western philosop ...

for which he was awarded th
Prix Jules Janin
of the

Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...

(''Les aveux'', P.O.L., 2008) as well as ''

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'', P.O.L 2010 and ''

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'', P.O.L., 2010). He is published by . He is also the president of Tetra Media Studios, best known in the Anglophone world for the television drama series A French Village. He is currently the literary director of Éditions P.O.L. He assumed this position in 2018 after the death of the publishing house's founding editor, Paul Otchakovsky-Laurens. Frédéric Boyer is also the artistic director of the

Les Arcs Film Festival Les Arcs Film Festival is an annual European film festival held every December in Les Arcs in the French Alps. Profile Les Arcs was co-founded in 2009 by Pierre-Emmanuel Fleurantin (CEO), Guillaume Calop (general manager), and Jérémy Zelnik ...

and the

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(since 2012).

Works

*1991: ''La Consolation'' *1992: ''En prison'' *1993: ''Des choses idiotes et douces'', Prix du Livre Inter *1993: ''Comprendre et compatir'' *1994: ''Comme des anges'' *1995: ''Le dieu qui était mort si jeune'' *1995: ''Est-ce que tu m'aimes ?'' *1995: ''Les Innocents'' *1995: ''L'ennemi d'amour'' *1996: ''Arrière, fantômes !'' *1996: ''Dieu, le sexe et nous'' *1997: ''Notre faute'' *1998: ''Le Vertige des blondes'' *1999: ''Le Goût du suicide lent'' *1999: ''Pas aimée'' *2000: ''Kids'' *2000: ''Une fée'' *2002: ''Gagmen'' *2002: ''La Bible, notre exil'' *2003: ''Songs'' *2003: ''Mauvais vivants'' *2004: ''Mes amis mes amis'' *2004: ''« Nous nous aimons »'' *2005: ''Abraham remix'' *2006: ''Patraque'' *2008: ''Vaches'' *2009: ''Orphée'' *2009: ''Hammurabi Hammurabi'' *2010: ''Techniques de l'amour'' *2012: ''Phèdre les oiseaux'' *2013: ''Rappeler Roland'' *2014: ''Dans ma prairie'' *2015: ''Quelle terreur en nous ne veut pas finir ?'' *2015: ''Kâmasûtra'' *2016: ''Les Yeux noirs'' *2017: ''Là où le coeur attend'' *2018: ''peut-être pas immortelle'' *2020: ''Sous l'éclat des flèches'' *2020: ''Jésus : l'histoire d'une parole'' (Illustrated by Serge Bloch)

References

External links

Frédéric Boyer
on Éditions P.O.L
Frédéric Boyer : "Il y a trop de fausse érudition dans le débat français"
on '' Journal du Dimanche''
Frédéric Boyer
on Babelio

on

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Frédéric Boyer
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Frédéric Boyer, chaman chrétien
on ''

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'' (26 April 2012)
Frédéric Boyer
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