Stéphane Audeguy (born 1964
Tours
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) is a French novelist and essayist.
He studied literature at the
University of Paris
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, where he also taught.
He served as an assistant professor at the
University of Virginia at Charlottesville
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between 1986 and 1987.
He returned to France and now lives in Paris where he teaches art history and film history at a local high school.
Awards
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Prix Maurice Genevoix
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It is intended to recognize a French literary work which, by its topic or style, honors the m ...
from the
French Academy
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, for ''La théorie des nuages''
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Prix des Deux Magots The Prix des Deux Magots is a major French literary prize. It is presented to new works, and is generally awarded to works that are more off-beat and less conventional than those that receive the more mainstream Prix Goncourt.
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, for ''Fils Unique''
Works
* ''Les monstres : Si loin si proches'',
Gallimard, coll.
Découvertes Gallimard (n° 520), 2007,
* ''La théorie des nuages'' (''The Theory of Clouds'') Translator Timothy Bent
* ''Fils Unique'' (''Only Son'').
* ''Rom@''
References
External links
"Interview with Stéphane Audeguy", ''French book news''
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1964 births
Living people
Writers from Tours, France
20th-century French novelists
20th-century French male writers
21st-century French novelists
University of Paris alumni
University of Paris faculty
University of Virginia faculty
Prix des Deux Magots winners
Prix Maurice Genevoix winners
French male novelists
21st-century French male writers
Nouvelle Revue Française editors