Laurent Binet

Laurent Binet ( born July 19, 1972 in Paris ) is a French writer. For his novel HHhH he was awarded in 2010 the "Prix Goncourt du premier roman".

Career

Binet did his military service in Slovakia at the Air Force school in Košice as a French teacher from and had previously studied in Paris. Then he commuted for several years between Prague and Paris. He now works (2011) in the teaching profession in the Paris countryside as Professeur de littérature Agrégé modern, but is also responsible for university courses at the University of Paris VIII.

In 2000 he published his first book, inspired by surrealism narrative Forces et de nos faiblesses muqueuses (strengths and weaknesses of our mucous membranes ). Followed in 2004, his second book, La Vie professionnelle de Laurent B. ( The working life of the Laurent example ), in which he talks about his experiences while teaching at schools in Paris.

In January 2010, published by Grasset HHhH ( the acronym for " Himmler's brain is called Heydrich ", a saying of Hermann Göring ). The focus of the novel is the SS -Obergruppenführer, head of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) and Deputy Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia in Prague, Reinhard Heydrich, and the crimes committed by the Czech resistance fighters Jan Kubis and Jozef Gabčík assassination attempt on him ("Operation Anthropoid "). The author was awarded for the work of the "Prix Goncourt du premier roman" On March 2, 2010. After publication of the book has been known that when editing about 20 pages have been deleted, in which Binet was extremely critical look at Jonathan Littell's novel The Kindly Ones (2006). The German translation of HHhH was published in September 2011 by Rowohlt.

Works

• Forces et de nos faiblesses muqueuses, Le Manuscript, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-74810014 -X.
• La Vie professionnelle de Laurent B. Little Big Man, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-915557-52-7.
• HHhH. Edition Grasset et Fascelle, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-246-76001-6. German: HHhH. Himmler's brain is called Heydrich. Novel. From the French by Mayela Gerhardt. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2011, ISBN 978-3-498-00668-6.