Jérôme Garcin

Jérôme Garcin (born 4 October 1956) is a French journalist and writer. He heads the cultural section of the ''Nouvel Observateur'', produces and hosts the radio programme ' on France Inter, and is a member of the reading committee of the Comédie-Française.

Biography

Jérôme Garcin was a pupil at the lycée Henri-IV in Paris before undertaking journalism studies. He then worked for the weekly ''L'Événement du jeudi''. He published his first poems in the early eighties. In 1989, he succeeded Pierre Bouteiller to animate the show ''The Masque and the Plume'' of France Inter, of which he later became the producer. He also holds the position of deputy director of the weekly ''Le Nouvel Observateur'' and collaborates with the newspaper '. A former member of the Prix Décembre, he was elected to the Prix Renaudot in March 2010''Beigbeder et Garcin au Renaudot ''
dépêche AFP du 10 mars 2011. In the same year he was a member of the Prix Françoise Sagan.

In 1994, he received the prix Médicis essai for ''Pour Jean Prévost''. The son of Philippe Garcin, an editor at the Presses universitaires de France (PUF), who died at the age of 45 as a result of a horse accident, He would dedicate him his first novel, ''La Chute de cheval'', for which he was awarded the Prix Roger Nimier in 1998. When he was six, he accidentally lost his twin brother Olivier. He will dedicate him ''Olivier'', a narrative published in 2011.

Garcin won the Grand Prix de littérature Henri-Gal of the Académie française in 2013 and the Prix Prince Pierre de Monaco in 2008.

He is married to actress , the daughter of actor Gérard Philipe and Anne Philipe.

Controversy

The website suggested a conflict of interest between his profession of literary criticism, of animator producing the most prescriptive radio program in literary matter, and that of writer: the highly praising critics of Jérôme Garcin's works would not be alien to the dominant position he occupies in the French literary microcosm.

Works

* 1994: ''Pour Jean Prévost'', Gallimard – Prix Médicis essai 1994
* 1995: ''Littérature vagabonde'', Flammarion
* 1998: ''La Chute de cheval'', Gallimard – Prix Roger Nimier 1998,
* 1999: ''Barbara, claire de nuit'', La Martinière Groupe,
* 2001: ', Gallimard, – Hérault de Séchelles's imagined confessions
* 2003: ''Théâtre intime'' – Prix France Télévisions essai 2003
* 2004: ''Bartabas'' (novel), éd. Gallimard – biographie romancée sur l'écuyer Bartabas ; Prix Jean-Freustié

2005: ''Le Masque et la Plume'' with Daniel Garcia, anthology of the program

* 2006: ''Cavalier seul : journal équestre'', Gallimard
* 2007: ''Les SÅ“urs de Prague'', Gallimard,
* 2007: '' Nouvelles Mythologies'' (collective work under his direction, and writing of the text ''Le Corps nu d'Emmanuelle Béart''), éditions du Seuil
* 2008: ''Son excellence, monsieur mon ami'', Gallimard – Prix Duménil 2008
* 2009: ''Les livres ont un visage'', Mercure de France

* 2010: ''L'Écuyer mirobolant'', Gallimard,
* 2011: ''Olivier'', éd. Gallimard
* 2012: ''Fraternité secrète'' in collaboration with Jacques Chessex, éditions Grasset,
* 2013: ', Gallimard – Prix des romancières 2014
* 2014: ''Le Voyant'', Gallimard – biography of blind resistant Jacques Lusseyran – prix Nice Baie des Anges 2015 – Prix Relay des Voyageurs Lecteurs 2015 – Prix d’une vie
* 2015: ''Nos dimanches soirs'', co-éd. Grasset/France-Inter – ''Le Masque et la Plume'' et son histoire

See also

* Étienne Beudant's life inspired ''L'Écuyer mirobolant'', Gallimard.

References

External links

Jérôme Garcin
on Wiki sources


on L'Obs

Jérôme Garcin
on Gallimard

Jérôme Garcin
on the site of the Académie française

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1956 births
Living people
Writers from Paris
20th-century French journalists
21st-century French journalists
20th-century French writers
21st-century French writers
20th-century French essayists
21st-century French essayists
French radio presenters
French literary critics
Roger Nimier Prize winners
Prix Médicis essai winners
Lycée Henri-IV alumni
Radio France people