François Weyergans

François Weyergans (* August 2, 1941 Brussels) is a native of Belgium writers in French, also picture and theater artists.

The son of a Belgian father and a French mother wanted to be a film director: In 1961 he went to Paris to a film school. He writes for the magazine Cahiers du cinéma and turns first, mostly short documentaries. In the seventies the movies Maladie arise mortelle and Couleur chair (including with Dennis Hopper and Bianca Jagger ).

Because the process does not work, is WEYERGANS relocated to the letter: 1973 appears the satirical novel Le pitre, the preparation of a treatment at the famous psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. The book takes a positive response in the French literary critics and was awarded the prestigious Prix Nimier.

With his subsequent novels, WEYERGANS established itself as one of the preeminent stylists of the French literature. His playful, self-reflexive and self-ironic narrative style leads to compare with Laurence Sterne, Jean Paul, but also with Woody Allen. In 1997, the semi - autobiographical novel Franz and François, who makes him known to a wider audience appears.

In 2005, he obtained for the novel Trois jour chez ma mère the most famous French literary prize, the Prix Goncourt. The decision provides some controversy because the jury the controversial novel La possibilité d'une île by Michel Houellebecq prefers him.

WEYERGANS describes himself as a " film buffs that turns any movies ", "I prefer the novel as a means of expression before. It is more accurate, more subtle and richer than a movie. "

On 26 July 2009 he was elected to the Académie française. He took the armchair 32 on 16 June 2011.

Works (selection)

  • Salomé 1969 (2005 published)
  • Le pitre, 1973
  • Les figurants 1980
  • Macaire le copte 1981
  • Le radeau de la méduse 1983
  • Rire et pleurer 1990
  • La démence you boxer 1992 (Eng. The Boxer madness )
  • Franz et François 1998 ( German Franz and François ) on the similarity in name with his father
  • Trois jours chez ma mère 2005. Dt. Three days at my mother's Cologne: Dumont, 2006
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