Régis Jauffret

Régis Jauffret ( born June 5, 1955 in Marseille ) is a French writer. He lives in Paris.

Life

Régis Jauffret is the author of a play, and numerous novels. Inspired by the literature Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf and Truman Capote tries Jauffret in his works, enter into the spirit of his characters.

He explored the depths of the human psyche and has in his novels, among others in the world of ideas of rapists ( Histoire d' amour ) and child murderers ( Clémence Picot ) issued.

For Asil de fous In 2005 he was awarded the Prix Femina literary prize. Sévère regarded as literary implementation of the circumstances of the murder of one of the richest men in France, Edouard Stern.

His latest novel Claustria who treats the Austrian Josef Fritzl criminal case, appeared in September 2012 in the publishing Lessing ROAD 6, an imprint of Ecowin Verlag. Jauffret had traveled for research purposes at a court hearing in St. Pölten.

Awards

• Prix ​​Décembre 2003 for Univers univers
• Prix ​​Femina in 2005 for Asiles de fous
• Prix ​​France Culture - Télérama 2007 for Microfictions

Works (selection)

• Histoire d' amour. Gallimard, Paris 1998, ISBN 978-2-84335-099-3.
• Clémence Picot. Gallimard, Paris 1999, ISBN 978-2-84335-034-4.
• Univers univers. Gallimard, Paris 2003, ISBN 978-2-84335-176-1.
• Asiles de fous. Gallimard, Paris 2005, ISBN 978-2-07-077534-7.
• Microfictions. Gallimard, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-07-078317-5.
• Sévère. Éditions du Seuil, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-02-102248-3, dt Strict. from the French by Gaby Wurster, Piper, Munich / Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-492-26463-1.
• Claustria. Editions du Seuil, Paris 2012, ISBN 978-2-02-102251-3, dt Claustria. Salzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-85300-002-1.
• Ballade de Rikers Iceland. Éditions du Seuil - Cadre rouge, Paris, 2014, ISBN 978-2-02-109759-7.