Vassilis Alexakis

Vassilis Alexakis (in Greek: Βασίλης Αλεξάκης , born the December 25th 1943 with Athens, -) is a writer gréco - French, author of an important novel. He writes at the same time in French and Greek, his native tongue.

Its work, divided between two cultures, is impressed of a tender irony and makes us penetrate in the middle of the intimate and universal history. About the use of its two languages in its work, Vassilis Alexakis points out that “initially the French period ago. I wrote in French the first three novels, where the contact with the language is still relatively distant. It is easier to me to make French humor, blow they are lighter books. There is, then, a turn with Talgo , the first book written in Greek where I make the proof that my manner of writing remainder the same one while passing from one language to another, that I betrayed none of the two languages and that none betrays me. ”

Biography

At the 17 years age, Vassilis Alexakis receives a purse and unloads in France (with Lille), to study journalism. The purse being too thin, it must work with plunges in a restaurant. After its three years studies, it returns in Greece due to military service but returns to settle in Paris in 1968 after the military coup d'etat.

He will work with the Monde of the books during fifteen years. Cartoonist, Vassilis Alexakis was journalist with the newspaper Le Monde and also wrote radiophonic parts.

He received in 2007 the Grand Prix of the novel of the French Academy.

Works

Novels and accounts

the Sandwich , Julliard, Paris, 1974,202 p.
Girls of City-Bang-Bang the , Paris, Julliard, 1975,188 p.
the Head of the cat , Paris, the Threshold, 1978,157 p.
Talgo , Paris, the Threshold, 1983,157 p. Translated from the Greek by the author.
Identity check , Paris, the Threshold, 1985,192 p.
Paris-Athens , Paris, the Threshold, 1989,214 p.
Before , Paris, the Threshold, 1992,236 p. Price Albert Camus 1993.
the Native tongue , Paris, Beech, 1995,392 p. Price Médicis 1995.
the Heart from Marguerite , Paris, Stock, 1999,426 p.
the Heart of Marguerite , Paris, Stock, 1999,426 p.
the foreign Words , Paris, Stock, 2002,320 p.
I will forget you the every day, Paris, Stock, 2005,283 p.
a. J. - C. , Paris, Stock, 2007,396 p.

News

Pourquoi you cry? , ED. Do Romiosini-Schwarze Kunst (Germany), 1991
Pourquoi you cry? " , illustrations of Jean-Marie Antenen, ED. Quiquandquoi (Swiss), 2001

Dad: and other news , Paris, Beech, 1997,186 p. Price of the News of the French Academy 1997.

the Hake of Alaska , illustrations of Maxime Courtyards, Paris, 1999.

Aphorisms

the Invention of the kiss , illustrations of Thierry Bourquin, 1997.
the Son of King Kong , 1987.

Cartoons

My love! , 1978.
the Blind man and the Philosopher , ED. Quiquandquoi (Swiss), 2006

Guide of voyage

Greeks of today , Paris, Balland, 1979,159 p. " To travel at the present; 1" (ISBN 2-7158-0200-5)

Cinema

I am tired , 1982 a short film of Vassilis Alexakis
Nestor Carmides passes to the attack , 1984
the table , 1989
the Athenians , 1991

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