Grégoire Bouillier
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Grégoire Bouillier (born June 22, 1960 in
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) is the French
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who wrote ''Rapport sur moi'' (''Report on Myself'') and ''L'invité mystère'' (''The Mystery Guest''). ''Rapport sur moi'' won the
Prix de Flore The Prix de Flore is a French literary prize founded in 1994 by Frédéric Beigbeder. The aim of the prize is to reward youthful authors and is judged by a panel of journalists. It is awarded yearly in November, at the Café de Flore in Paris. The ...
in 2002. Bouillier is the unnamed protagonist of French artist
Sophie Calle Sophie Calle (born 9 October 1953) is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement known as Oulipo. ...
’s work, ''Take Care of Yourself'', in which Calle collected comments from 107 women to an e-mail he wrote her to end their affair. The work was exhibited in the French pavilion of the 2007 Venice Biennale.


Works


Original French

* ''Rapport sur moi'', 2002 * ''L'invité mystère'', 2004 * ''Cap Canaveral'', 2008


English translations

* ''The Mystery Guest'', 2006 (translated by
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) * ''Report on Myself'', 2008 (translated by
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Dutch translation

* ''De raadselgast ''.


Arabic Translation

* ''Report on Myself- تقرير عن نفسي '', 2014 ( Publisher - Al Kotob Khan )


References

1960 births Living people People from Tizi Ouzou Pieds-Noirs French male writers {{France-nonfiction-writer-stub