Frédéric Brun (born 30 June 1960, Paris) is a French writer, the author of a trilogy published by

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which earned him several literary prizes, including the

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for ''Perla'', as well as the one bestowed by the "Association Écritures et Spiritualités" for ''Une prière pour Nacha''.

Biography

In 2007, he published his first book ''Perla''. Shortly after the death of his mother, Perla, deported fifty years earlier to the

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, he tried to understand her ordeal and read numerous testimonies about the camps. Strangely at the same moment, he felt attracted by the German poets,

Novalis Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801), pen name Novalis (; ), was a German nobility, German aristocrat and polymath, who was a poet, novelist, philosopher and Mysticism, mystic. He is regarded as an inf ...

, Hölderlin,

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and painter

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. A hymn to the mother, it is also a book of correspondence and questioning, on love, death, birth and transmission. In 2008, a second book was published: ''Le Roman de Jean''. In this book, he retraces the journey of his father

Jean Dréjac Jean Dréjac, stage name of Jean André Jacques Brun (3 June 1921, in Grenoble – 11 August 2003, in Paris) was a French singer and composer. He is noted for writing the songs " Ah! Le petit vin blanc", " Sous le ciel de Paris" and "La Chansonne ...

, author of songs, from fragments and rough drafts. After his disappearance, faced with questions about the afterlife, he finds an appeasement with the ancient philosophers. In 2010, he completed a family trilogy with ''Une prière pour Nacha''. Nacha suffers from

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. At the moment when he was present at the end of her life, the narrator noticed that the story of his family's branch had not been told to him. He is going to make an investigation in Poland and thanks to a Yizker-bukh, a book of memory, he would get to know some details of the life of his ancestors. ''Une prière pour Nacha'' is a book of hope at the crossroads of religions. In 2015, he published the biographical novel ''Novalis et l'âme poétique du monde'' and created the éditions Poesis. That same year, he was a member of the

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. In 2016, he conceived the design, the choice of texts and the foreword of the anthology ''Habiter poétiquement le monde'' (Poesis).

Work

*2007: ''Perla'', Stock, . *2008: ''Le Roman de Jean'', Stock, . *2010: ''Une prière pour Nacha'', Stock, . *2015: ''Novalis et l'âme poétique du monde'', Poesis, . ;Collaboration *2006: Jean Dréjac, ''Comme elle est longue à mourir ma jeunesse'', éditions Christian Pirot, . *2015: ''Poesie, réel absolu,'' fragments de Novalis (transl. Laurent Margantin), foreword, Poesis, . *2016: ''Habiter poétiquement le monde'', anthologie-manifeste, Poesis, .

Prizes and distinctions

* 2007: ''Perla'', winner of the Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman; nominated for the Prix

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and the "Bourse de la Découverte" of the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco. * 2009: ''Perla'', winner of the (Québec). * 2010: ''Une prière pour Nacha'', winner of the .Prix des écrivains croyants 2010
* 2015: ''Novalis et l'âme poétique du monde'', in the final selection of the Prix Femina essai

References

External links

Frédéric Brun
on Babelio
Frédéric Brun
on M.E.L
''Sur les traces de Novalis'' avec Frédéric Brun (1/5)
on

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