French Authors on Tour
In the list below, you will find French authors who are already scheduled to visit the USA. Please read their biographies to determine if they are suitable for your needs.
AUTHORS AVAILABLE FOR BOOKING
.: Fiction :.
Jean-Christophe Valtat
Dates: Sept 15 - Oct 8, 2010
 | Born in 1968 Jean-Christophe Valtat has published a book of short stories, Album (Léo Scheer, 2003) and two novels for Gallimard: Exes (1997) and 03, (2005), which is to be published in the USA by Farrar Strauss & Giroux, in June 2010. His first novel in English, Aurorarama is going to be published by Melville Publishing House in August 2010. >> more |
Hédi Kaddour
Dates: Oct 26 - Nov 7, 2010
 | Born in 1945, Hédi Kaddour is a poet, translator and novelist. He is the author of several collections of poetry published by Gallimard. He won the 2005 Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman (First Novel) with Waltenberg (Gallimard, 2005, translation by Random House, 2007). In January, Hedi Kadour published a novel, Savoir-Vivre, (Gallimard, 2010) and a diary Les pierres qui montent, notes et croquis de l’année 2010, (Gallimard, 2010). >> more |
.: Non-Fiction :.
François Dosse
Dates: Sept 16 - 27, 2010
 | François Dosse is an intellectual historian and professor at the IUFM Créteil, the Institut d’études politiques de Paris, and the Centre d’histoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines de l’université Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. He is the author of numerous books including a two-volume history of structuralism. >> more |
Bruce Bégout
Dates: Sept 24 - Oct 9, 2010
 | Philosopher Bruce Bégout is also the author of several works of fiction. Bégout concentrates on the exploration of the urban and the ordinary and everyday life. Several of his books are linked to America, its suburbs and the standardisation of our existence. His latest work to be published in English this fall: Common Place: The American Motel (Otis books / Seismicity Editions, 2010; translated by Colin Keaveney) explores the motel experience. >> more |
Judith Revel
Dates: End of September, 2010
 | A former student of the E.N.S Fontenay-Saint Cloud, Judith Revel is a professor of philosophy at the University of Paris I Sorbonne. She is a specialist of Michel Foucault and of political philosophy from 1945 to 1980 (Foucault Deleuze, Derrida, Clastres; Merleau-Ponty, Lefort and Castoriadis…). From 1992 to 1998, Revel taught at the University of Rome III, (Department of Communications and Languages). >> more |
Pierre Guyotat
**POSTPONED **
Dates: April 25 - May 10, 2011
 | One of the most avant-garde and subversive French novelists of the later 20th century, Pierre Guyotat’s works examine the violence of language, sexuality, politics, racism and war. Tomb for 500,000 soldiers (1967) established his reputation as a controversial writer and his fourth novel, Éden, Éden, Éden, was censored immediately after publication. In 2010, Arrière-fond, his latest autobiographical book, was released by Gallimard.>> more |
Christian Salmon
** CANCELLED **
 | Christian Salmon was born in Marseille in 1951. He is a writer and researcher at the Center for Research for the Arts and Language at the CNRS in Paris. The founder of the International Parliament of Writers (promoting creative freedom), he is the author of Tombeau de la fiction, Devenir minoritaire and Verbicide and is a columist for Le Monde.>> more |
.: Past Authors :.
Olivier Abel, Karim Amellal, David B., Christophe Bertossi, Christophe Blain, John Banzaï, Muriel Barbery, Emmanuel Bouju, Laurent Cohen-Tanugi, Nicolas De Crécy, Florence Delay, Agnès Desarthe, Souleymane Diamanka, Philippe Djian, Fatou Diome, Elsa Dorlin, Jean-Michel Espitallier, Dominique Fabre, Philippe Forest, Philippe Grimbert, Olivier Godechot, Emmanuel Guibert, Sihem Habchi, Eric Hazan, Chen Jiang Hong, Joëlle Jolivet, François Jullien, Inculte Magazine and Publisher, Dominique Kalifa, Hervé Kempf, Smaïn Laacher, Emmanuelle Loyer, Bernard Magnier (Synergie Program), Abdelwahab Meddeb, Léonora Miano, Pap Ndiaye, Amélie Nothomb, Anthony Pecqueux, Olivier Philipponnat, Atiq Rahimi, Olivier Rolin, Jacques Roubaud, Daniel Sabbagh, Joy Sorman, Abdellah Taia, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Frédéric Valabrègue, Michel Wieviorka.
.: How To Apply :.
If you would like to invite one of the authors listed above, please download the application form in MSWord format, fill it out on your computer, and email it to:
Anne-Sophie Hermil - Non Fiction
.: Mailing Address :.
Book Department | Cultural Services of the French Embassy
972 Fifth Ave. | New York, NY 10075
F 212 439 1455
If you would like to suggest a French author or academic who you think would be an interesting speaker or guest lecturer in the USA, please email us at the email addresses above.
Please note that the opinions expressed by the visiting scholars and authors during theirs presentations are not those of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States.
