Alain Lance

Alain Lance ( born December 18, 1939 in Bonsecours in Rouen, Normandy ) is a French writer, translator and educator. After graduation in 1959, he studied German in Paris and Leipzig. He was a teacher in Paris and in Iran. From 1985 to 1991 he headed the French Institute in Frankfurt am Main, in connection to 1994 the French Institute in Saarbrücken and from then until 2004, the Parisian house of literature Maison des écrivains et de la littérature.

He wrote poems, which he published in France and translated Volker Braun, Franz Fühmann, Ingo Schulze and Christa Wolf, translated into French. He lives in Paris.

Autobiography

• Germany, for a lifetime. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3882215939.