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Jean-Christmas Pancrazi is a writer French current born with Setif (Algérie) in 1949.

This novelist of Corsican origin was born in Algeria, country which it leaves in 1962 at the time of the war of independence to settle in France with Perpignan then with Paris.

Incorporated modern Letters in 1972 and collaborator in the World of the Books, he is member of the jury of the Prix Renaudot since 1999.

He is known for his sought writing, with the long sown sentences of metaphors. The narrator of the Winter quarters evokes the life of a gay bar, his loves with a young person without shelter, his friendship with a painter devoted to the S/M, on bottom of epidemic of AIDS.

Works

burned memory , novel, the Threshold, 1979
Lalibela or Arab death , novel, Ramsay, 1981
the hour of the good-byes , novel, the Threshold, 1985
the passage of the princes , novel, Ramsay, 1988
Winter quarters , novel, Gallimard, 1990, Price Médicis
the silence of passions , novel, Gallimard, 1994, Price Valéry Larbaud
Mrs Arnoul , account, Gallimard, 1995, Price Maurice Genevoix, Price Albert Camus, Price of the Book Inter
Long stay , account, Gallimard, 1988, Price Jean Freustié
Renee Camps , account, Gallimard, 2001
All passed so quickly , 2003, Grand Prix of the novel of the French Academy
the dollars of sands , novel, Gallimard, 2006

It also published Corsica (the Threshold, 2000) in collaboration with the Photographe Raymond Depardon: text on Corsica and his father (making following Long stay ).

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