Dominique Fernandez

Dominique Fernandez ( born August 25, 1929 in Neuilly -sur -Seine, Hauts -de -Seine ) is a French author.

Life

Fernandez is the son of the French literary critic Ramon Fernandez. After school, Fernandez studied in Italy. After studying Fernandez taught in 1957 and 1958, initially for the French language at a French Institute in Naples. 1968 Fernandez reached his Ph.D. and wrote his dissertation on the Italian writer Cesare Pavese. His appointment in Naples was terminated because he had informed of the communist author Roger Vailland. Fernandez returned to France, where he taught the Italian language at a school in Rennes. He got a job as a university lecturer at the University of Rennes. As an author, Fernandez wrote several books. 1982 Fernandez won the French literature prize. Fernandez is a member of the Académie française. 1961 married Diane Fernandez Jacquin de Margerie and has a daughter with her. 1971 had divorced Fernandez. Since the 1970 Fernandez lives openly homosexual.

Works (selection)

  • Porporino ou les Mystères de Naples, 1974 ( awarded the Prix Médicis 1975)
  • Dans la main de l'ange (English: In the Angel 's Hand ), 1982 (Book of the Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini ), ( awarded the Prix Goncourt )
  • L' Amour (English: Love ), 1986 ( book about the painter Friedrich Overbeck )
  • Le Rapt de Ganymède, Grasset, 1989, in German: The Rape of Ganymede. Übers Verena Vannahme. Beck & Glückler, Freiburg 1992 ISBN 3-89470-110-2 ( A cultural history of homosexuality )
  • L ' école du sud. in German: The School of the South. Novel. Translator's Maria Dessauer. Island, Leipzig 1993 ISBN 3-458-16547-9 ( A marriage and Sicily novel )
  • Le Dernier of Médicis (English: The Last of the Medicis ), 1994 ( Gian Gastone book about de ' Medici )
  • Tribunal d' honneur (English: Court of Honor ), 1996 ( book about the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky )
  • Le loup et le chien (English: The Wolf and the Dog ), 1999
  • A Hidden Love: Art and Homosexuality, 2002
  • L'Art de raconter, Grasset, 2007, ISBN 2-246-71931-3
  • Place Rouge, Grasset, 2007, ISBN 978-2-246-72911-2
  • Ramon, Paris 2009 Grasset (novel about his father Ramon Fernandez )

Awards and honors (selected)

  • Prix ​​Médicis, 1975
  • Prix ​​Goncourt, 1982
  • Member of the Académie française, 2007
  • Chevalier de la Légion d' honneur
  • Commandeur de l'Ordre National du Mérite
  • Commandeur de l'Ordre National de la Croix du Sud du Brésil
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