Iegor Gran

Iegor Gran (born Iegor Andreyevich Siniavsky, 23 December 1964, Moscow) is a Russian-born French novelist.

Iegor Gran
Born
Iegor Andreyevich Siniavsky

(1964-12-23) December 23, 1964
Moscow, Russia
NationalityFrench
EducationÉcole Centrale Paris
OccupationBusinessman
Spouse(s)Catherine Gran
Parent(s)Andrei Sinyavsky
Maria Rozanova

Early life

Iegor Gran was born on 23 December 1964 in Moscow, Russia.[1] His father, Andrei Sinyavsky, was a Russian writer and dissident who was jailed from 1964 to 1971.[1] His mother, Maria Rozanova, is a publisher and an editor.[1] His family moved to France in 1973, when he was nine years old.[1] He graduated from the École Centrale Paris.[1]

Career

He published his first novel, Ipso facto, in 1998. He went on to write eleven more novels, some of which are critiques of political correctness.[1] His twelfth novel, La Revanche de Kevin, is about a novelist who feels bad about being named Kevin.[2]

He has written a bi-monthly column in Charlie Hebdo since 2011.[3]

Personal life

He is married to Catherine Gran, a painter.[1] They live in Paris.[1]

Bibliography
  • Ipso facto (Paris: Éditions P.O.L, 1998).
  • Acné festival (Paris: P.O.L., 1999).
  • Spécimen mâle (Paris: P.O.L., 2001).
  • ONG ! (Paris: P.O.L., 2003).
  • Le Truoc-Nog (Paris: P.O.L., 2003).
  • Jeanne d'Arc fait tic-tac (Paris: P.O.L., 2005).
  • Les Trois Vies de Lucie (Paris: P.O.L., 2006).
  • Thriller (Paris: P.O.L., 2009).
  • L’écologie en bas de chez moi (Paris: P.O.L., 2011).
  • L'Ambition (Paris: P.O.L., 2013).
  • Vilaines Pensées, Les Échappés (2014).
  • La Revanche de Kevin (Paris: P.O.L., 2015).
gollark: Surely nobody would willingly ONLY stare at such a bland repolist forever.
gollark: My own directory listing?
gollark: ubq already has a website.
gollark: Although I doubt adoption can go negative, so there may be no reduction at all.
gollark: I'll switch my stuff round and reduce adoption even further I guess! And probably mirror it to git.osmarks.net.

References
  1. Murielle Lucie Clément, Écrivains franco-russes, Rodopi, 2008, pp. 207-211
  2. Charles Gautier, VIDÉO. "ONPC" : Iegor Gran déchaîne les "Kevin" sur Twitter, un écrivain qui fait du bien, Le Nouvel Observateur, 19 April 2015
  3. Natalie Levisalles, Iegor Gran: «"Charlie Hebdo", c'est un monument», Libération, 7 January 2015


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