François-Olivier Rousseau
François-Olivier Rousseau (born 20 September 1947, Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French journalist and writer.
Biography
A young literary critic at Le Matin de Paris at the end of the 1970s, he became a novelist, met with success immediately and collected several literary prizes. He then left Paris for the Isle of Man where he settled in the capital, Douglas, a town of barely more than 20,000 inhabitants. He devotes himself only to the writing between two voyages.
French detesting France, a specialist in the period from Napoleon III to the First World War (which he considers to be "an accident that is incomprehensible to me, I try to understand what could have provoked this manifestation of the death instinct of the West and I like to dream what would have been this century without the war"), he particularly likes to depict with many details the lives of artists going through this era.
The Éditions du Seuil published a novelization of the film he cowrote, Children of the Century, devoted to the love affair between George Sand and Alfred de Musset.
Bibliography
- 1977: Le Regard du voyageur, Stock
- 1981: L'Enfant d'Édouard, Mercure de France prix Médicis 1981
- 1985: Sébastien Doré, Mercure de France, prix Marcel Proust 1986, prix Bertrand de Jouvenel of the Académie française
- 1988:La Gare de Wannsee, Grasset, Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française 1988)
- 1991: Andrée Putman, Éditions du Regard
- 1991: Le Jour de l'éclipse, Grasset
- 1995: L'Heure de gloire, Grasset
- 1999: Les Enfants du siècle, Le Seuil
- 2001: Le Passeur, Stock
- 2003: Le Plaisir de la déception, Stock
- 2003: Grand Hôtel du Pacifique, Éditions du Rocher
- 2004: Princesse Marie, Le Seuil
- 2006: Le Faux Pli, Gallimard
Filmography
as screenwriter:
- Children of the Century by Diane Kurys
- Absolument fabuleux by Gabriel Aghion
- Nuit noire 17 octobre 1961 by Alain Tasma [fr]
- Nathalie... by Anne Fontaine
- The Princess of Montpensier by Bertrand Tavernier
- Princesse Marie [fr] by Benoît Jacquot
External links
- François-Olivier Rousseau on Babelio
- François-Olivier Rousseau on Allaty Éditions
- François Olivier Rousseau: Le plaisir de la déception video on INA.fr (24 February 2003)
- François-Olivier Rousseau on the site of the Académie française
- François-Olivier Rousseau at IMDb
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- 1958: Claude Ollier
- 1959: Claude Mauriac
- 1960: Henri Thomas
- 1961: Philippe Sollers
- 1962: Colette Audry
- 1963: Gérard Jarlot
- 1964: Monique Wittig
- 1965: René-Victor Pilhes
- 1966: Marie-Claire Blais
- 1967: Claude Simon
- 1968: Elie Wiesel
- 1969: Hélène Cixous
- 1970: Camille Bourniquel
- 1971: Pascal Lainé
- 1972: Maurice Clavel
- 1973: Tony Duvert
- 1974: Dominique Fernandez
- 1975: Jacques Almira
- 1976: Marc Cholodenko
- 1977: Michel Butel
- 1978: Georges Perec
- 1979: Claude Durand
- 1980: Jean Lahougue (declined award)
- 1980: Jean-Luc Benoziglio
- 1981: François-Olivier Rousseau
- 1982: Jean-François Josselin
- 1983: Jean Echenoz
- 1984: Bernard-Henri Lévy
- 1985: Michel Braudeau
- 1986: Pierre Combescot
- 1987: Pierre Mertens
- 1988: Christiane Rochefort
- 1989: Serge Doubrovsky
- 1990: Jean-Noël Pancrazi
- 1991: Yves Simon
- 1992: Michel Rio
- 1993: Emmanuèle Bernheim
- 1994: Yves Berger
- 1995: Vassilis Alexakis and Andreï Makine
- 1996: Jacqueline Harpman and Jean Rolin
- 1997: Philippe Le Guillou
- 1998: Homéric
- 1999: Christian Oster
- 2000: Yann Apperry
- 2001: Benoît Duteurtre
- 2002: Anne F. Garréta
- 2003: Hubert Mingarelli
- 2004: Marie Nimier
- 2005: Jean-Philippe Toussaint
- 2006: Sorj Chalandon
- 2007: Jean Hatzfeld
- 2008: Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès
- 2009: Dany Laferrière
- 2010: Maylis de Kerangal
- 2011: Mathieu Lindon
- 2012: Emmanuelle Pireyre
- 2013: Marie Darrieussecq
- 2014: Antoine Volodine
- 2016: Ivan Jablonka
- 2017: Yannick Haenel
- 2018: Pierre Guyotat
- 2019: Luc Lang
- 2020: Chloé Delaume
- 2021: Christine Angot
- 2022: Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam