Hédi Kaddour (born July 1st, 1945 in

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) is a French poet and novelist.

Biography

Hédi Kaddour was born of a Tunisian father and a French mother. Received 1st at the aggregation of modern letters, he is a translator of English, German and Arabic. He taught French literature and dramaturgy at the

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(ex ENS de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud) and journalistic writing at the (CFJ). He is now a professor of French literature at the New York University in France. He also teaches the writing of reports at the École des métiers de l'information (EMI, Paris) and runs one of the writing workshops of the "NRF" at

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. Editor-in-Chief of the magazine '' Po&Sie '', he sometimes gives literary columns to ''

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des livres'', ''

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'' and '' Le Magazine Littéraire''. After several collections of poems published by Editions Gallimard, he published ' in 2005, a novel that plunges into the history of men and letters of the twentieth century. This book, which mixes adventure and espionage, also houses a sentimental plot tinged with melancholy. Hailed by critics, it received the

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and the

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, and was ranked "Best French novel of the year 2005" by magazine '' Lire''. A collection of studies on this novel appeared under the title ''Études sur Waltenberg, roman de Hédi Kaddour'', at editions Act Mem (series "Lire Aujourd'hui") in 2007. The novel ''Waltenberg'' was translated into English by David Coward at

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in 2007 and in German by Grete Osterwald in 2009 by ''Eichborn Verlag'', Frankfurt am Main. In January 2010, Hédi Kaddour published two new books: ''Savoir-vivre'', novel, Gallimard, series "Blanche" and "Folio". A German translation appeared by Eichborn Verlag in April 2011. ''Les Pierres qui montent, notes et croquis de l'année 2008'', Gallimard, series "Blanche". In 2015, Hédi Kaddour received the

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for his novel ', as well as the

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. He was also among the four finalists of the

Prix Goncourt 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 ...

which was eventually awarded to

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. In March 2016, he also received the

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for that novel. Three of his poems were put into music in 1999 for voice and piano by composer

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in the series ''Six Mélodies'' (''Le Vin nouveau'', ''Théâtre du vide'' and ''La Jalousie''); These pieces were subsequently transcribed for violin (or viola) and piano in 2008 (''Cinq Pièces'').

Works

Novels

*2005: in German: ''Waltenberg'', translated by Grete Osterwald, Verlag Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2009 ,

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*2010: *2015: ''Les Prépondérants'', Éditions Gallimard, series "Blanche", 464 p. -

2015 -

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2015. Prix Littéraire Valery Larbaud 2016. *2021: ''La Nuit des orateurs,'' Éditions Gallimard

Poetry

*1987: *1989: *1992: *1994: *1997: *1994: *2000:

Diary

*2010:

Other

*2007: *2009:

Articles online

* "Un théâtre mauvais genre
''En attendant Godot'' et ''Fin de partie''"
in ''

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'', , n°604, June 1999, p. 119-130

In collaboration

*2006: *2007:

Bibliography

*2007: Articles by: Frédérique Aït-Touati – Didier Alexandre – Yves Balmer – Christian Biet – Anne-Lise Blanc – Claude Burgelin – Pierre Campion – Gabrielle Chamarat – Florence Chapiro – Pierre Daubigny – Robert Davreu – Jean-Yves Debreuille – Jean-Pierre Dupouy – Bernard Franco – Christian Garcin – Gérald Garutti – Brigitte Gauthier – Gérard Gengembre – Jean Goldzink – Francine Mazière – Claude Mouchard – Nathalie Piégay – Jean-Loup Rivière – Marianne Rubinstein – Martin Rueff – Tiphaine Samoyault - Guillaume Soulez – Muriel Stuckel – Lionel Verdier *Roman Monde: Hédi Kaddour's ''Waltenberg''. Bérengère Vachonfrance-Levet. Paradoxa vol.24: Espionage Fiction:The Seduction of Clandestinity. Pages 187-198. Collectif sous la direction de Robert L. Snyder. 2012.Vashon Island, WA 98070, États-Unis.

Prizes

*2005: ''Waltenberg'', novel,

*2015: ''Les prépondérants, roman'',

, Prix Littéraire Valery Larbaud.

References

External links

Article de Bernard Pivot dans le ''Journal du dimanche'', 16 janvier 2010, sur ''Savoir-vivre'' et Les ''Pierres qui montent''

* ttp://lire.fr/enquete.asp/idC=49508/idTC=15/idR=200/idG=3 ''Waltenberg'', dans le magazine ''Lire''
Article de Pierre Campion sur ''Waltenberg''

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