François Weyergans
François Weyergans , born on December 9th, 1941 with Etterbeek with Brussels in Belgium, is a writer and Belgian realizer Francophone. It received the Prix Goncourt in 2005 for its novel Three days in my mother .
Biography
Wire of a Belgian father, Franz Weyergans, writer him as, and from a mother Avignon are born, it carried out its schooling in the same school as Hergé, the Institut Saint-Boniface-Parnassus. It follows then the courses of the Institut of the high cinematographic studies (IDHEC) and is impassioned for Bresson and Godard. He will write in the Cahiers of the cinema before realizing in 1961 a first film on Maurice Béjart.Following an analysis, it publishes in 1973 a sarcastic report of its cure. It is the substance of its novel the Clown , noticed by the criticism, and which obtains the Prix Roger-Nimier.
Then, in 1981, Macaire Copte (Gallimard) is devoted by the price Rossel in Belgium and obtains also the Prix of the Two Nest eggs. Consequently, Weyergans is dedicated entirely to the literature, working during the night, eleven hours of the evening at the following day midday.
the Raft of the jellyfish (Gallimard, Paris, 1983) receives the Meridian Prix of the four jurys. He writes also Franz and François , allusion to his father and itself, the Life of a baby . Its novel Three days in my mother obtains the Prix Goncourt in 2005 at the end of an intense competition with the novel headlight of the literary re-entry of this year, the Possibility of an island of Michel Houellebecq.
Selective bibliography
- 1973 : the Clown .
- 1981 : Macaire Copte
- 1983: the Raft of the jellyfish , at Gallimard.
- 1989 : I am writer at Gallimard.
- 1992 : the Insanity of the boxer
- 1997: Franz and François at Grasset.
- 2005 : Three days in my mother at Grasset.
Catalog of films
- 1962 : Béjart (documentary)
- 1963: Hieronymus Bosch (short-measuring)
- 1965: Robert Bresson: Neither seen, nor known (of the portraits Scenario writers of our time ), 65 minutes
- 1967: Beaudelaire is gestorven in zomer
- 1967: Aline
- 1972: a film on somebody
- 1977: Fatal disease
- 1977: I love you, you dances
- 1978: Color Flesh
Literary prizes
- Price Roger-Nimier (1973) for the Clown ;
- Price of the Company of the Men of letters, and Price Sander Pierron of the royal Academy of language and literature Frenchwomen of Belgium, for the Observers (Balland, Paris, 1980);
- Rossel (1981) for Macaire Copte ;
- Meridian Price of the four jurys (1983) for the Raft of the jellyfish ;
- Renaudot (1992) for the Insanity of the boxer ;
- Goncourt (2005) for Three days in my mother .
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