Sylvain Prudhomme

Sylvain Prudhomme (1979, La Seyne-sur-Mer) is a French writer.

Sylvain Prudhomme (2018)

He is the author of novels and reports, many of which are based in contemporary Africa, where he lived and worked. His novel Les Grands (ed. L'Arbalète, Gallimard) was designated "French Revelation of the year 2014"[1] by the editorial staff of the magazine Lire.

Biography

Sylvain Prudhomme spent his childhood in different African countries (Cameroon, Burundi, Niger, and Mauritius) before studying literature in Paris and then directing the Franco-Senegalese Alliance of Ziguinchor in Senegal from 2010 to 2012.

He collaborated with the magazines Geste and Le Tigre.

Works

Novels

  • 2007: Les matinées d'Hercule, Serpent à plumes
  • 2010: L'affaire Furtif, Burozoïque, (with drawings by Lætitia Bianchi).
  • 2010: Tanganyika Project, Léo Scheer
  • 2012: Là, avait dit Bahi, L'Arbalète, Gallimard
- Prix Louis-Guilloux.[2]
  • 2014: Les Grands, L'Arbalète, Gallimard
- "Révélation française de l'année 2014" in the ranking of the best books of the year of magazine Lire
- Prix Georges Brassens 2014.[3]
- Prix Climax, Musique et Littérature 2014 (prize established by the bookstore Lucioles in Vienne (38) and C'rock radio.
- Prix de la Porte Dorée 2015[4]
  • 2016: Légende, L’Arbalète, Gallimard
  • 2019: Par les routes, Gallimard

Reports

  • 2010: Africaine Queen. Dans les salons de coiffure de Château d'eau, éd. Le Tigre
  • 2011: La vie dans les arbres, followed by Sur les bidonvilles, les cabanes et la construction sauvage, éd. Le Tigre

Translations

  • 2009: John Reed, Pancho Villa, Allia
  • 2011: Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Décoloniser l'esprit, La Fabrique
gollark: Ah, I see, an actual solution.
gollark: Also, changing the channels won't really help, as you'll need to update people's radios... and they can read off the channel...
gollark: Don't blame 5cn for taking 30 seconds to watch your radios work.
gollark: <@246968630598828034> If you make a stupidly insecure protocol people will use it.
gollark: He *did* also mention his bandwidth.

References
  1. Le palmarès des 20 meilleurs livres de l'année selon la rédaction de Lire
  2. "Sylvain Prudhomme lauréat du Prix Louis Guilloux 2012". 2012. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
  3. "Sylvain Prudhomme, Prix littéraire Georges Brassens 2014". Retrieved 28 November 2016.
  4. Agathe Auproux (2015). "Le prix de la Porte Dorée récompense Sylvain Prudhomme". Retrieved 28 November 2016.
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