Writers

		Rapport sur moi (2002) Grégoire Bouillier is forty years old, he lives and works in Paris. After writing for the magazines l’Infini and NRV, he published his first book Rapport sur moi (Allia) which received the Prix de Flore in 2002. In this book, he tells us about his life in an autobiographical form, in a brutal and funny way. Through various personal stories, he gives us his vision of the family, and more widely, of society itself. Rapport sur moi tells us a lot about the author but also leads us to reflect on ourselves. This is where the strength and originality of this book lie.






		Ariel (2002) Marina Carr was born and grew up in County Offaly. She graduated from University College Dublin in 1987. The Gallery Press has published The Mai (1994 winner of the best new play award at the Dublin Theatre Festival), Portia Coughlan (Susan Smith Blackburn Award, 1997), By the Bog of Cats (Irish Times/ESB Award for Best New Play, 1998), On Raftery’s Hill (2000) and Ariel (2002). Marina Carr lives in Dublin with her family. She has been Writer-in-Association at the Abbey Theatre, Writer-in-Residence at Trinity College and was Heimbold Professor of Irish Studies at Villanova University in the Spring of 2003. She is a member of Aosdána.





		Et il ne pleut jamais, naturellement (2003) Born in Algers, Béatrice Commengé published her first novel in 1985, La Nuit est en avance d’un Jour (Editions Orban). In 1988, she published her second novel, Le Ciel du Voyageur (Gallimard), set in Italy. She then travels to the U.S.A. and pays tribute to Henry Miller with H.M. Ange, Clown, Voyou (1991, Plon ). L’Homme Immobile was published in 1997 by Gallimard. Her latest novel is Et il ne pleut jamais, naturellement (Gallimard, 2003). Her writing is evenly situated between novel and autobiography. She has translated over twelve books for Anaïs Nin and she now contributes to different literary magazines.





		En souvenir des long-courriers (2003) Charles Dantzig’s first book was a study of Rémy de Gourmont. It was followed by a collection of poems, Le chauffeur est toujours seul (La Différence, 1991), and by three novels. Confitures de crimes was published in 1993, Nos vies hâtives (Grasset, 2001) won the Prix Jean Freustié and the Prix Roger Nimier, and Un film d’amour (Grasset, 2003) won the Grand Prix Thyde Monnier de la Société des Gens de Lettres. En souvenir des long-courriers - Poèmes 1991-2003 (Les Belles Lettres, 2003) gathers together his poetic work into a single volume. An experienced translator, he has published the first full translation of Oscar Wilde’s chronicles, Aristote à l’heure du thé (Belles Lettres, 1994). He is in charge of two collections at the Belles Lettres publishing compagny and is also an editor at Grasset.





		Café Brazil (2002) Born in Berlin, Tanja Dückers has lived in several countries (the U.S.A., the Netherlands, Spain). She has studied American and German Philology. Since 1997, she has written for various magazines and newspapers. Her first novel was entitled Spielzone (1999). She has written poetry in German, Luftpost (2001), and in English, Fireman (1996). Her collection of short stories Café Brazil (2002) has been translated into Turkish.



		La fabrique de cérémonies (2001) Kossi Efoui was born in Togo in 1962. Having taken part to the student movements against the Togolese government, he had to take refuge in France. La polka (Seuil, 1997) was his first novel. Very fond of theatre, he wrote several plays which were very successful both in Europe and Africa : La malaventure (Lansman, 1993), Le petit frère du rameur (Lansman, 1995), Que la terre vous soit légère (Le bruit des autres, 1996), L’entre-deux-rêves de Pitagaba (Acoria, 2000). La fabrique de cérémonies, his second novel, was published by Le Seuil in 2001.





		The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch (2002) Anne Enright was born, lives and works in Dublin. Her short stories are published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta and in most anthologies of Irish fiction. Her first collection of short stories, The Portable Virgin (Secker and Warburg, 1991) won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and was shortlisted for the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Irish Literature Prize. She has published several novels, The Wig My Father Wore (Jonathan Cape, 1995), What are you like? (Jonathan Cape, 2002) and The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch (Jonathan Cape, 2002). A book of essays, Making Babies, will be published by Jonathan Cape in August 2004.





		James X (2002) Gerard Mannix Flynn was born in Dublin in 1957 and now lives in Kerry. His play He Who Laughs Wins was performed in London. He collaborated with Peter Sheridan in the writing of Liberty Suit and appeared in the play. He wrote a novel Nothing to Say (Dublin, Ward River, 1983). He is the author, the actor and the director of the one-man plays Talking to the Wall (1996) and James X (2002). In the autumn of 2003, Gerard Mannix Flynn presented an “extallation” entitled State Meant on a Leeson Street wall, followed, in December 2003, by an exhibition at the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Not to be Read in Public. He is a member of Aosdána and has been appointed to the Board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art in January 2004.





		The Speckled People (2003) Born in Dublin in 1953, Hugo Hamilton grew up in an Irish-German family where his father spoke only Irish and his mother German. He has written five novels and a collection of short stories Dublin where the Palm Trees Grow (Faber and Faber, 1996). His novels reflect the duality of his Irish-German upbringing. For him, writing was the only way to explain his childhood confusion. He won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and, recently, the New York Times has listed The Speckled People (Fourth Estate, 2003) as one of the most notable books of 2003. Hugo Hamilton is a member of Aosdána.




		Cette grenade dans la main du jeune nègre est-elle une arme ou un fruit? (2003) Dany Laferrière was born in Port-au-Prince (Haïti) in 1953. After completing his studies, he worked as a journalist and was critical of President Duvalier. He was obliged to leave Haïti for Montréal when a colleague was murdered. His first novel, Comment faire l’amour à un nègre sans se fatiguer (1985) is also a film distributed in about fifty countries. He wrote several film scripts for television. His new film Comment conquérir l’Amérique en une nuit will be out in 2004. Dany Laferrière has also written several novels, the most recent ones being : Le cris des oiseaux fous (2000, Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe), J’écris comme je vis (2000) and Je suis fatigué (2001). His books are translated into several languages.





		Contretemps (2004) Born in 1965, Fabrice Lardreau lives and works in the Paris area. He works for Le Club Alpin Français and is Editor in Chief of Montagnes Infos. He is the author of five novels, Les draps de papier (Denoël, 1994), Une fuite ordinaire (Denoël, 1997), Les tirages flous ne sont pas facturés (Denoël, 1998), Quelqu’un marche là-haut (Albin Michel, 2000) and Contretemps (Flammarion, 2004). He works on a regular basis for the magazine L'Atelier du Roman. He was twice awarded a Mission Stendhal, in 2000 in Dublin and 2004.





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