Born on the 21st September 1965 into a privileged family in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Frédéric Beigbeder is a French writer, commentator critic and pundit. After graduating from the Instiut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Political Sciences) at the age of 24, he began his career path as advertising executive, author, broadcaster, publisher and dilettante. In 1994 he founded the "Prix de Flore", a prize which is awarded annually to a promising French author. Vincent Ravalec, Jacques A. Betrand and Michel Houellebecq are among those who have won the prize. He worked as a publisher at Flammarion until 2006, creating two literary reviews: NRV (Nouvelle Revue Violente) in 1996 and Bordel (Brothel) in 2006. In 2002 he presented a TV Talk Show "Hypershow" on French Canal +, and in 2007 he went to the USA to make a film about American author J.D.Salinger. He now hosts a weekly literary television show on Canal + called Le Cercle Littéraire (The Literary Circle). He has written several novels, his latest being Au Secours Pardon in 2007 (Grasset). Two of Beigbeder's novels, 99 Francs (2000) and Windows on the World (2003), have been adapted for the cinema. Windows on the World received the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2005 (the other two writers on the short list were Orhan Pamuk and Jose Saramago, both Nobel Prize winners). 99 Francs was released in September 2007 and was viewed by 1.3 million people.
You can find out more information about Frédéric Beigbeder at www.beigbeder.net
Website:
http://www.beigbeder.net
Bibliography:
Novels
1990: Mémoire d'un Jeune Homme Dérangé (Memoirs of a Deranged Young Man), La Table Ronde
1994: Vacances dans le Coma (Holidays in a Coma), Grasset
1997: L'amour dure Trois Ans (Love Lasts Three Years), Grasset
2000: 99 Francs (Retitled 14,99 euro after the introduction of the euro), Grasset (translated into English as £9.99 by Adriana Hunter)
2003: Windows on the World, Grasset (translated under the same title by Frank Wynne)
2005: L'égoïste Romantique (The Romantic Egoist), Grasset
2007: Au Secours Pardon, Grasset
2009:Un roman français, Grasset
Short story
1999: Nouvelles sous Ecstasy (Tales On Ecstasy), Gallimard, Collection L'Infini
Essay
2001: Dernier Inventaire avant Liquidation, Grasset
Discussions
2004: Je crois Moi non plus : Dialogue entre un évêque et un mécréant Calmann Levy
Comic books
2002: Rester Normal Dargaud
2004: Rester Normal à Saint-Tropez Dargaud
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