Gerard Streiff

Gerard Streiff , born the March 17th 1949 with Moyeuvre (the Moselle), is a journalist, essay writer and novelist French. He was director of collection.

Biography

Gerard Streiff follows to Strasbourg the courses of Science-Policies (1967-1970), then of the Institute of the high European studies (1972). He resumes his studies on late, passes in 1997 a DEA to the IEP of Paris and sign a thesis (1997-2001) devoted to the Communist leader Jean Kanapa who is worth to him the rank of Doctor de Science Po Paris in history. Meanwhile, he worked with the international sector of the PCF (1973-1981), was corresponding to Moscow of the daily newspaper Humanity (1982-1986), then assistant editor association of the magazines Révolution and Regards . Since 1994, Gerard Streiff works at the department communication of PCF. He published about thirty works: tests on the history of the intelligentsia of left in the Fifties, biographies, novels of adventures and novels black.

It is with a work bound for youth, the Port of the desert (1998), having milked with corruption and the ecological threat with the Kazakhstan, which it makes its beginnings of novelist. Other novels like from there the Plunderers of frescos will follow (1999), where twins manage to update a traffic of cave paintings; Curses strait (2001), history of a friendship between a holiday maker in Spain and one without paper; and Mantrap (2002) on a polemic opposing shepherds and defenders of the wolves…

Appeared with the Editions Whale in the collection “the Octopus”, its first novel black Case GB (2000) starts with the discovery of a body in the room of the files of the PC. The investigation of Octopus to the seat of the party will lead it to evolve/move in the medium SM of the capital. It will run up against the shades of the war of Spain. In 2001, at Whale, Streiff inaugurates with the Cellars of the Gold Drop , the collection “Polarchive”, a series of fictitious whodunnits founded on historical events then lit by the contemporary glance. In this first opus which gives rise to two recurring characters - Chloé, coed in history and Antoine, soixante-huitard, librarian and erotomaniac -, of the sulfurous files are updated forty years after the war of Algeria and make the light over the dark October 17th, 1961. The series which it directs receives a good echo in the press but stops in the shipwreck of Baleine after a second title. It will be started again with the Editions of the Passage and account in 2005 twelve titles.

On the ton of the joke, the War of let us croûtons (2002) tells a guerilla inter-générationelle between three old politicians with the rancart and of thirty year vain who monopolize the presidential campaign. In the Eyes of Lénine (2005), novel where the USSR of yesterday and Russia of today telescope, an archivist specialist in the USSR is found assassinated. A journalist who inherited his papers will understand that the disappearance of a photograph and the fear of its reappearance constitute the reasons of this murder.

With engaged novels, documented, and often in direct catch with the history, the work of Gerard Streiff is located in the line of Didier Daeninckx and Pierre Bourgeade, two authors whom he venerates.

Selective bibliography

Novels

Case G.B. (Whale n° 199 “the Octopus”, 2000);
Cellars of the Gold Drop (Whale “Polarchive” n° 7,2001);
the War of let us croûtons (Whale “gray Series” n° 17,2002);
Eyes of Lénine (the Passage, 2005).

News

Project of speech for on March 22nd, 2000 (in March 22nd, 2000, it is a good day for Gabriel , Baleine, “Octopus” n° 186,2000);
Relaxes It in Bonnot (in new Black screens 25 “Whodunnit, cinema and stars” , vol. 2, the Mark-Page, 2002);
Janus (in CCAS Infos n° 242, janv. 2004);
the Diver (in Humanity n° 18655, August 5th, 2004; in 36 new black for Humanity , Except Trade “Except Black”, 2004);
Handrail (in black Line n° special Festival, 2004);
the Terrace of Osiris (in Report/ratio of stage to the wire of the Nile , French Arts center of Cairo, 2005);
Pas of lodge of a complaint (in It had nothing more terrible there than its glance…: lived racism, of discriminations to the daily newspaper , Syllepse, 2005).

Novels for youth

the Trawler of the desert / the Port of the desert (Hatchet “green Library” n° 527,1998/Magnard Youth “Police officers” n° 12,2003);
Plunderers of frescos (Magnard Youth “Police officers”, 1999);
white Night train (Magnard Youth “p' tits police”, 2000);
Curses strait (Magnard Jeunesse “p' tits police”, 2001);
Mantrap (Magnard Youth “p' tits intrepid”, 2002);
the War of the small soldiers (Beaver pocket “Travels from time” n° 915,2003);
Télétoc (Magnard Youth “Tipik junior” n° 35,2005).

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