French author, screenwriter and film director

Emmanuel Carrère (born 9 December 1957) is a French author, screenwriter and film director.

Carrère is often described as France's most original writer of non-fiction. Karl Ove Knausgaard has referred to him as "the most exciting living writer".

Contents

• 1 Life
  • 1.1 Family
  • 1.2 Studies
  • 1.3 Style
  • 1.4 Career
• 2 Awards
• 3 Bibliography
• 4 Selected filmography
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Life

Family

Carrère is the son of Louis Édouard Carrère d'Encausse, and of the historian and Académie française member, Hélène Carrère d'Encausse. His maternal grandfather, Georges Zourabichvili, immigrated from Georgia to France in the early 1920s. He is also a cousin of the philosopher François Zourabichvili and first cousin once-removed of Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili.

Studies

Carrère studied at the Ins*ut d'études politiques de Paris (better known as Sciences Po).

Style

Much of his writing, both fiction and nonfiction, centers around the primary themes of the interrogation of iden*y, the development of illusion and the direction of reality. He has also been an important reference for the "autofiction" movement in English, as he has "excelled at creating narratives that range freely between genres."

Career

Several of his books have been made into films, and he directed the film adaptation of his novel La Moustache. He was the president of the jury of the book Inter 2003. He was a member of the International jury at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. He was a member of the jury for the Cinéfoundation and Short Films sections of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

In 2011, he has written a biographical novel about Eduard Limonov, founder of the National-Bolshevik Party.

In 2015, he was served on the Jury for the Main Compe*ion at the 2015 Venice Film Festival, chaired by Alfonso Cuarón.

On October 20, 2017, he published a laudatory article on Emmanuel Macron in The Guardian.

In January 2019, the conservative Catholic website Church Militant charged that p*ages from Carrère's The Kingdom, *igned to students at Franciscan University of Steubenville, were "blasphemous and adult movieographic." The university's Dean removed the head of the English Department and apologized to "our Blessed Mother and her Son, and to anyone who has been scandalized by this incident."

In 2020, his novel Yoga deals with his experience of depression with "suicidal thoughts, in a bipolar disorder type II” treated with ECT, because of an affective disorder drug-resistant psychotic, with an intractable tendency to suicide. Carrere write that, after having been in *ysis for thirty years, lithium drops and ECT saved him.

Awards

• 1984: Prix P*ion
• 1985: Prix littéraire de la Vocation
• 1987: Grand Prix de l'imaginaire
• 1988: Prix Charles-Oulmont
• 1988: Prix Kléber-Haedens
• 1995: Prix Femina
• 2007: Prix Duménil
• 2009: Prix Marie-Claire; prix Crésus
• 2010: Grand Prix de littérature Henri Gal de l'Académie française
• 2011: Prix Renaudot; Prix de la langue française
• 2014: Prix littéraire Monde; "Meilleur livre de l'année", awarded by Lire
• 2015: Mondello Prize
• 2016: Tomasi di Lampedusa Literary Prize
• 2017: Prix FIL de littérature en langues romanes.
• 2018: Prix de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF)
• 2019: Premio Hemingway
• 2021: Princess of Asturias Award for Literature; Visions du Réel Honorary Award; Taobuk Award for Literary Excellence; Premio Napoli

Bibliography

• Werner Herzog (1982)
• L'Amie du jaguar (The Jaguar's Friend) (1983)
• Bravoure (1984) (translated as Gothic Romance, 1990)
• Le Détroit de Behring (The Behring Strait) (1984) (German: Kleopatras Nase. Kleine Geschichte der Uchronie. Gatza, Berlin 1993.)
• La Moustache (1986) (translated as The Mustache, 1988)
• Hors d'atteinte (Out of Reach) (1988)
• Je suis vivant et vous êtes morts (1993) (I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick, translated by Timothy Bent, 2005). A somewhat fictionalized biography of Philip K. Dick.
• La Cl*e de neige (1995) (Cl* Trip: A Novel, translated by Linda Coverdale, 1997). Winner of the Prix Fémina Adapted in 1998 as the film of the same name directed by Claude Miller.
• L'Adversaire (2000) (The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception, translated by Linda Coverdale, 2002). A nonfictional account of the life of the murderer Jean-Claude Romand, after the author corresponded with the criminal in jail (1993), and watched his trial (1996). In 2002, L'Adversaire was adapted into the film of the same name by director Nicole Garcia.
• Un roman russe (2007) (My Life as a Russian Novel, translated by Linda Coverdale, 2011)
• D'autres vies que la mienne (2009) (Lives Other Than My Own, translated by Linda Coverdale, 2012)
• Limonov (2011), a biography of Eduard Limonov (Limonov: The Outrageous Adventures, translated by John Lambert, 2015)
• Le Royaume (2014) (The Kingdom: A Novel, translated by John Lambert, 2017)
• Il est avantageux d'avoir où aller (2016) (97,196 Words: Essays, partial translation into English by John Lambert, 2019)
• Yoga (2020)

Selected filmography

• 1996:: la Cl*e de Neige by Claude Miller, adapted from his book of the same name.
• 1999:: Angel, based on the novel by English writer Elizabeth Taylor.
• 2002:: L'Adversaire by Nicole Garcia and Daniel Auteuil, screenwriter.
• 2003:: Retour à Kotelnitch, director.
• 2005:: La Moustache, director and screenwriter, along with Emmanuelle Devos and Vincent Lindon.
• 2009:: I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive, story.
• 2011:: All Our Desires, adapted from his book Other Lives But Mine
• 2020:: Le Quai de Ouistreham, adopted from Florence Aubenas's book of the same name.

References

External links

• Susannah Hunnewell (Fall 2013). "Emmanuel Carrère, The Art of Nonfiction No. 5". The Paris Review. Fall 2013 (206).
• Kai Nonnenmacher: "Unterwerfung als Konversion: Als-Ob-Bekehrungen zu Katholizismus und Islam bei Carrère und Houellebecq". In: Romanische Studien 3 (2016), 171-198 online.
• Emmanuel Carrère – Photos by Mathieu Bourgois.
• Emmanuel Carrère at IMDb