Gilles Carpentier (14 June 1950, Paris – 16 September 2016''Disparition de Gilles Carpentier''
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Biography

After various menial jobs at the PTT or in the cinema, then a journalist with the cultural section of ' in the 1970s, where he published numerous chronicles on

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, Carpentier also became a reader for the

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. In charge of the manuscript service and member of its reading committee from 1981, he was a full-fledged publisher in 1992 and until 2003. He discovered Agota Kristof with the novel ' which became a great success in France and also the writer

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. He also edited numerous African and Francophone authors including

Aimé Césaire Aimé Fernand David Césaire (; ; 26 June 1913 – 17 April 2008) was a French poet, author, and politician. He was "one of the founders of the Négritude movement in Francophone literature" and coined the word in French. He founded the Par ...

(whose complete poetry he edited),

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, or Tierno Monenembo. Éditions du Seuil greeted him as an "immense reader and discoverer of talent". He was also the author of six books, which were all in one way or another about one of his favorite subjects, the contemporary city. His latest novel, ''Les Bienveillantes'' J. Littell's The Kindly Ones (Littell novel)">eponymous work (2006)">Jonathan Littell">J. Littell's The Kindly Ones (Littell novel)">eponymous work (2006)is written in an entirely dialogued form. ''Les Manuscrits de la marmotte'' published in 1984, earned him the Prix Fénéon for literature.

Works

* 1984: ''Les Manuscrits de la marmotte'', Éditions du Seuil, Prix Fénéon * 1988: ''Tous couchés'', Seuil * 1992
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Seuil * 1994: ''Scandale de bronze. Lettre à Aimé Césaire'', Seuil * 1999: ''Couper cabèche'', Seuil * 2002: ''Les Bienveillantes'',

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Carpentier, Gilles 1950 births Writers from Paris 2016 deaths 20th-century French non-fiction writers 20th-century French male writers 21st-century French non-fiction writers French editors Prix Fénéon winners French male non-fiction writers