Authors
Joël Egloff Novelist France
“Why I write: If I write, it is perhaps because it is only through writing that I feel totally myself, that I get the impression of assembling all the bits of my puzzle. It seems to me that writing is a little like another language that I may speak better than my own.
What I write: It is always very difficult to take a view on one’s own work, but what I can say is that I consider the novel a little like a ground of exploration. To give out a novel is for me a little like throwing oneself out in the open. When I begin, I know only very little of the universe that I want to describe. I don’t even know my characters. It is through writing that I start to meet them.
In my eyes, the most important thing is not the story. What is most interesting to me is the work on the sentences. In the background of my novels, there is very often lost places, ruins, no man’s lands, in the middle of which some characters develop and try to remain human, for better or for worse.”
Joël was born in 1970 and lives in Paris. After studying film, he has continued with various activities in audiovisual communication, written scenarios and then his first novel, Edmond Ganglion and Son (Edmond Ganglion & fils), published by Rocher in 1999, which received the Alain-Fournier Prize. He then decided to devote himself entirely to writing and published The Sunbathers (Les Ensoleillés) and received Erckmann-Chatrian Prize in 2000, then published What I Do Sitting on the Ground (Ce que je fais là assis par terre) and received L’Humour Noir Grand Prize in 2003. Vertigo (L’Etourdissement), his fourth novel, published in 2005 by Buchet-Chastel, received the Livre Inter Prize.
Participation Program
Round Table 3 Newness in my literature
Round Table 2 Newness in my literature
Round Table 1 Newness in my literature