French writer Emmanuel Carrère was awarded the prestigious Spanish Princess of Asturias Prize for Literature on Wednesday, one of the most important awards in the Spanish-speaking world. Author among others of
The adversary
,
Un Roman Russe
or recently
Yoga
, Emmanuel Carrère was rewarded by the jury for "
a very personal work generating a new space of expression which erases the borders between reality and fiction
". According to the jury chaired by Santiago Muñoz Machado, the director of the Royal Spanish Academy, Emmanuel Carrère paints an “
incisive portrait of current society
” and has “
exerted a notable influence on the literature of our time
”.
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Emmanuel Carrère, 63, is one of the stars of French literature today, with many successes in bookstores, regularly ranking at the top of sales of novels.
Screenwriter, journalist, actor, biographer, novelist, filmmaker, documentary maker, Emmanuel Carrère has received numerous distinctions in his career, including the Renaudot Prize in 2011 for
Limonov
.
In nearly forty years, he has built a fictional work built on self-exploration, including when he tells the lives of others, from the murderer Jean-Claude Romand in
The Adversary
to the Russian writer Édouard Limonov in
Limonov
.
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His work is also marked by three tropisms: Russia with in particular his “
Russian
”
novels
:
Un Roman Russe
(2007),
Limonov
(2009),
Voyage à Kotelnitch
(2003);
the fantastic with novels like
I am alive and you died
(1993) and finally the news and the social fact in books like
The snow class
(1995), brought to the screen by Claude Miller, or
The adversary
(2000), whose protagonist, Jean-Claude Romand, gave his name to one of the most famous news items in France at the end of the 20th century.
Adapted on numerous occasions, he has also taken over the camera to become a documentary filmmaker (
Retour à Kotelnitch
, 2003) and filmmaker (
La mustache
, 2005) and has participated in the writing of television fictions, in particular for the series
The ghosts.
(2012). He is due to open the
Directors' Fortnight
, a section parallel to the Cannes Film Festival in July with his film
Le quai de Ouistreham
, an eponymous adaptation of the story by journalist Florence Aubenas, starring actress Juliette Binoche.
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