Yann Queffélec (born 4 September 1949 in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

) is a French author who won 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 ...

in 1985 for his novel '' Les Noces barbares'', translated into English as '' The Wedding''. He is the former husband of the late pianist

Brigitte Engerer Brigitte Engerer (; 27 October 1952 – 23 June 2012) was a French pianist. Biography Born in Tunis, French Tunisia, Engerer started piano lessons at the age of four, and by the age of six was performing in public. When she was 11 her fami ...

and the brother of musician Anne Queffélec. Their father was the writer Henri Queffélec.

Partial bibliography

* ''Les Noces barbares'' (1984) * ''Osmose'' (2000) * ''The Sea'' (2003): coauthor with photographer Philip Plisson and Eliane Georges.

References

1949 births Living people Writers from Paris 20th-century French novelists 21st-century French novelists Prix Goncourt winners Writers from Brittany French male novelists 20th-century French male writers 21st-century French male writers {{France-novelist-20thC-stub