Jérôme Ferrari is a French writer and translator born in 1968 in

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. He won the 2012

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 ...

for his novel '' Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome'' ("The Sermon on the Fall of Rome"). Ferrari has lived in

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and taught philosophy at the ''

Lycée international Alexandre-Dumas The Lycée International Alexandre Dumas (LIAD; ar, ثانوية الكسندر دوما الدولية) is a French international school in Ben-Aknoun, Algiers, Algeria. It has two divisions: ''primaire'' (primary school) and ''collège-lycée' ...

'' in

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for several years, then at the Lycée Fesch of Ajaccio. Currently, he is professor of philosophy at the French School of

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. Several of his novels have been translated into English, including ''Where I Left My Soul'' (2012), which is "set in the mid-1950s during the Algerian war, looking backwards to the second world war and the French defeat in Indochina, and forwards to the collapse in 1958 of the Fourth Republic." Most recently, his novel ''In His Own Image'' was published in English translation by Europa Editions.

Works

* * * 2018 ''A son image''(English translation: ''In His Own Image'', 2022) * 2015 ''Le Principe'' (English translation: ''The Principle'', 2016) * 2012 ''Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome'' (English translation: '' The Sermon on the Fall of Rome'', 2014) * 2010 ''Où j'ai laissé mon âme'' (English translation: ''Where I Left My Soul'', 2012) * 2009 ''Un dieu un animal'' * 2008 ''Balco Atlantico'' (English translation: ''Balco Atlantico'', 2019) * 2007 ''Dans le secret'' * 2002 ''Aleph zéro''

Awards and honors

* 2012

, ''Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome'' * 2010 Grand Prix Poncetton, ''Où j'ai laissé mon âme'' * 2010 Prix Roman France Télévisions, ''Où j'ai laissé mon âme'' * 2009 Prix Landerneau, ''Un dieu un animal''

References

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