Frédéric Boyer (born 2 March 1961,
Cannes
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) 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
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Cadiot was born in Paris
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,
Jean Echenoz
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Jean Echenoz was born in Orange, Vaucluse, the son of a psychiatrist, He studied in Rodez, Digne-les-Bains, Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille and Paris, where he has lived sinc ...
,
Florence Delay
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Biography
The daughter of Marie-Madeleine Carrez and Jean Delay, Delay studied at the Lycée Jean de La Fontaine and then the Sorbonne.
In 1962, she played the ti ...
,
Jacques Roubaud
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Jacques Roubaud taught Mathematics at University of Paris X Nanterre and Poetry at EHESS. A member of the Oulipo gr ...
, and others. He proposed new translations of the ''
Confessions'' by
Augustine of Hippo
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for which he was awarded th
Prix Jules Janinof the
Académie française
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(''Les aveux'', P.O.L., 2008) as well as ''
Richard II
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'', P.O.L 2010 and ''
Shakespeare's sonnets'', 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.
Works
*1991: ''La Consolation''
*1992: ''En prison''
*1993: ''Des choses idiotes et douces'',
Prix du Livre Inter
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*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 Boyeron Éditions P.O.L
Frédéric Boyer : "Il y a trop de fausse érudition dans le débat français"on ''
Journal du Dimanche''
Frédéric Boyeron Babelio
on
France Culture
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Frédéric Boyeron
France Inter
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Frédéric Boyer, chaman chrétienon ''
Le Monde
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'' (26 April 2012)
Frédéric Boyeron the site of the
Académie française
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Boyer, Frederic
20th-century French non-fiction writers
20th-century French male writers
21st-century French non-fiction writers
ENS Fontenay-Saint-Cloud-Lyon alumni
French Roman Catholic writers
Prix du Livre Inter winners
People from Cannes
1961 births
Living people
French male non-fiction writers