Charles Dantzig
Charles Dantzig ( born October 7, 1961 in Tarbes, Hautes -Pyrénées, France ) is a French author, poet and editor.
Life
Dantzig comes from a family of professors of medicine. After the Baccalauréat ( High School ), he visited the Hypokhâgne, a course preparing for the visit of a French elite school, but then took the tray law at the University of Toulouse. His doctoral thesis, which he presented in Paris at the age of 28 years, dealt with the " freedoms of the air ", the aviation rights of airlines.
His professional career began in 1995 at the Paris publishing house Les Belles Lettres, in which he for the three book series Brique ( contemporary literature ), Eux & nous ( Classical Philology ) and Trésors de la Nouvelle ( new releases ) was responsible. After he had himself translated works of Fitzgerald and Oscar Wilde, he was responsible for the first publication of a collection of poems by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. The publisher published under his direction as the first complete works of Marcel Schwob and anthologies of poetry of the Symbolists, the Greek classics and of Voltaire.
Dantzig published at this time his first essays, poems and novels. With his move to the Paris publishing house Éditions Grasset in 2003 he became editor. In addition, he was responsible for the so-called Cahiers rouges ( Red books ) from the publisher. In this series, both classics such as Jean de La Ville Mirmont and Jean Desbordes, and authors of the 20th century as Harold Nicolson, George Moore and Robert de Saint -Jean were laid. The series also contained previously unpublished works in France, for example, by Samuel Beckett, Bernard Frank (1929-2006) and Truman Capote. The publisher Grasset published under his leadership also some biographies, for example, by Irène Némirovsky, Pascal Jardin and Jules Michelet.
Awards and Honors
Publications
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald: Un legume. Grasset, Paris, Collection Les Cahiers rouges.
- Oscar Wilde: Aristote à l' heure du thé. Grasset, Paris, Collection Les Cahiers rouges.
- Oscar Wilde: L', importance d' être Constant, Grasset, Paris, Collection Les Cahiers rouges.