Daniel Arsand

Born with Avignon the July 9th 1950, Daniel Arsand is at the same time a writer French as a editor specialized in the foreign literature.

Biography

After having passed most of his childhood and of his adolescence with Roanne, Daniel Arsand follows with Paris various occupations in the universe of the books: initially Bookseller, in particular for the bookstores Fountain, it works ten years like advising literary near various publishers among which Manufacture and Balland, before entering to the editions of the Rock as press attaché. Lastly, in 2000, he becomes editor of foreign literature at Phébus.

As a writer, it makes his beginnings in 1989 with a Biographie of Mireille Balin but its career of Romancier begins only in 1998 with the Province of darkness , work noticed which is worth the Prix Femina to him first novel. This author, that Crisp Michel, in the Express train of September 28th, 2000, will call “Arsand, the traditional savage” because of contrast between the roughness of its topics and the sobriety of its style, publishes then several Romance and collections of Nouvelles, of which In silence , which will obtain the Grand Prix Jean Giono second novel.

In parallel, its role of editor is before all that of a “frontier runner”, i.e. of a reader who allows the French-speaking public to discover foreign authors. In this direction, Daniel Arsand is the “frontier runner” of William Trevor but also of three other writers Irish: Keith Ridgway (foreign Femina Price 2001), Hugo Hamilton (foreign Femina Price 2003) and Joseph O' Connor. Lastly, it translated the Turkish novelist Elif Shafak.

Works

Mireille Balin or the struck down beauty , Manufacture, 1989
Night , HB Éditeur, 1996
the Province of darkness , Phébus, 1998
In silence , Phébus, 2000
the besieged City , the Rock, 2000
Lily , Phébus, 2002
Intoxications of the son , Stock, 2004
Of the black horses , Stock, 2006

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