Sylvain Prudhomme
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Sylvain Prudhomme (2018)
Sylvain Prudhomme (1979, La Seyne-sur-Mer) is a French writer.
He is the author of novels and reports, many of which are based in contemporary Africa, where he lived and worked. His novel Les Grands (ed. L'Arbalète, Gallimard) was designated "French Revelation of the year 2014"[1] by the editorial staff of the magazine Lire.
In 2019 his novel Par les routes won the Prix Femina, one of the most important French literary prize.
Biography[]
Sylvain Prudhomme spent his childhood in different African countries (Cameroon, Burundi, Niger, and Mauritius) before studying literature in Paris and then directing the Franco-Senegalese Alliance of Ziguinchor in Senegal from 2010 to 2012.
He collaborated with the magazines
and .Works[]
Novels
- 2007: Les matinées d'Hercule, Serpent à plumes
- 2010: L'affaire Furtif, Burozoïque, (with drawings by ).
- 2010: Tanganyika Project,
- 2012: Là, avait dit Bahi, L'Arbalète, Gallimard
- 2014: Les Grands, L'Arbalète, Gallimard
- 2016: Légende, L’Arbalète, Gallimard
- 2018: L'Affaire Furtif, L’Arbalète, Gallimard
- 2019: Par les routes, L’Arbalète, Gallimard
- -Prix Femina
- -Prix Landerneau
Novellas
- 2020: Les orages, L’Arbalète, Gallimard
Reports
- 2010: Africaine Queen. Dans les salons de coiffure de Château d'eau, éd. Le Tigre
- 2011: La vie dans les arbres, followed by Sur les bidonvilles, les cabanes et la construction sauvage, éd. Le Tigre
Translations
- 2009: John Reed, Pancho Villa, Allia
- 2011: Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Décoloniser l'esprit,
References[]
- ^ Le palmarès des 20 meilleurs livres de l'année selon la rédaction de Lire
- ^ "Sylvain Prudhomme lauréat du Prix Louis Guilloux 2012". 2012. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
- ^ "Sylvain Prudhomme, Prix littéraire Georges Brassens 2014". Retrieved 28 November 2016.
- ^ Agathe Auproux (2015). "Le prix de la Porte Dorée récompense Sylvain Prudhomme". Retrieved 28 November 2016.
Categories:
- 21st-century French male writers
- 21st-century French novelists
- Prix Louis Guilloux winners
- 1979 births
- People from La Seyne-sur-Mer
- Living people
- French male novelists