Patrick Deville

Patrick Deville ( born December 14, 1957 in Saint- Brevin -les-Pins ) is a French writer.

Life

Deville studied comparative literature and philosophy at the University of Nantes, where he worked initially as a lecturer. Deville lived in the 1980s in the Middle East, Nigeria and Algeria. In the 1990s he visited Cuba, Uruguay, Central American States and countries of the former Eastern Bloc. These trips are a starting point for his literary production. Deville founded and directs the " Maison des écrivains étrangers et des traducteurs " in Saint- Nazaire and its magazine " Meet".

His novel Kampuchea in 2011 was selected by the magazine Lire as the best novel of the year.

2012 was the novel Peste et Cholera about life Alexandre Yersin the Fnac Prize and the Prix Femina.

Works (selection)

• Cordon - bleu. Editions de Minuit, Paris 1987 ISBN 9782707311207
• Longue vue. Editions de Minuit, Paris 1988 ISBN 2-7073-1177-4 This perspective. From d French speak. by Jürgen rides. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1989, ISBN 9783498012816

• Pura vida: Life and Death of William Walker. From the French by Holger Fock. Haymon, Innsbruck 2007 ISBN 978-3-85218-475-3

• Equatoria. Novel. From the French by Holger Fock and Sabine Müller. Bilger, Zurich 2013

Literature (selection )

• Oliver Eberlen: Roman impassible: the subversive and undogmatic use of narration, language, reality and time in the novels of Jean -Philippe Toussaint and Patrick Deville. Hamburg: Kovac, 2002
• Dorothea Schmidt- Supprian: Travels inauthentic narration in postmodern French novel: studies on the work of Jean Echenoz, Patrick Deville and Daniel Pennac. Tectum, Marburg 2003 ISBN 3-8288-8528-4 Zugl: .. Heidelberg Univ, Diss, 2001.