Patrick Rambaud

Patrick Rambaud
Born	(1946-04-21)April 21, 1946 Paris, France
Occupation	Writer
Notable awards	Prix Goncourt (1997) Grand Prix du Roman of the Académie française (1997)

Patrick Rambaud (born 21 April 1946) is a French writer.

Life

Born in Paris, France, with Michel-Antoine Burnier, he wrote forty pastiches (satirical novels). He wrote Le Journalisme sans peine (Editions Plon, 1997). In 1970, he helped found the iconic magazine Actuel. ^[1] In 2008, he was elected a member of L'Académie Goncourt, succeeding Daniel Boulanger. He remained a member for fourteen years, resigning the position in December 2022 for reasons of ill heath, and becoming an Honorary Member.

Awards

Rambaud received these awards for his book The Battle :

• 1997 Prix Goncourt
• 1997 Grand Prix du Roman of the Académie française

Works

English translations

• The Battle (translator Will Hobson). London: Picador, 2000; New York: Grove Press, 2001.
• The Retreat (translator Will Hobson). London: Picador, 2004; New York: Grove Press, 2004.
• The Exile (translator Shaun Whiteside). London: Picador, 2005; Napoleon's Exile. New York: Grove Press, 2006.

Publications in French

• Les Complots de la liberté, 1832, Grasset, 1976; with Michel-Antoine Burnier
• Parodies, Balland, 1977; with Michel-Antoine Burnier; parodies of Simone de Beauvoir, Per Jakez Hélias, Marguerite Duras, Louis Aragon, Henry de Montherlant, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, André Malraux, Samuel Beckett, Emmanuelle Arsan, Boris Vian, François Mallet-Joris and Philippe Sollers, François Mitterrand, Roland Barthes, André Breton, Françoise Sagan, Maurice Clavel, Gérard de Villiers, Charles de Gaulle
• Fric-frac, Grasset, 1984
• La Mort d'un ministre, Grasset, 1985
• Comment se tuer sans avoir l'air, La Table Ronde, 1986
• Virginie Q., Balland, 1988; under the pseudonym Marguerite Duraille
• Le Visage parle., Balland, 1988
• Elena Ceausescu: carnets secrets, Flammarion, 1990
• Ubu président, Robert Laffont, 1990
• 1848, Grasset, 1994
• Les Mirobolantes Aventures de Fregoli, Robert Laffont, 1991
• Le Gros Secret: mémoires du labrador de François Mitterrand, Calmann-Levy, 1996; under the pseudonym Baltique
• Mururoa mon amour, Lattès, 1996; under the pseudonym Marguerite Duraille
• La Bataille, Grasset, 1997; reprint Librairie générale française, 1999
• Le Journalisme dans peine, Plon, 1997
• Les Aventures de mai, Grasset, 1998
• Il neigeait, Grasset, 2000; reprint Librairie générale française, 2002
• Bernard Pivot reçoit…, Grasset, 2001
• Comme des rats, Grasset, 2002
• L'Absent, Grasset, 2003
• Le Sacre de Napoléon, 2 décembre 1804, Michel Lafon, 2004
• L'Idiot du village, Grasset, 2005
• Le Chat botté, Grasset, 2006
• La Grammaire en s'amusant, Grasset, 2007
• Chronique du règne de Nicolas Ier, Grasset, 2008; chronicles the first six months of Sarkozy's presidency, in pastiche of Saint-Simon)
• Deuxième chronique du règne de Nicolas Ier, Grasset, 2009
• Troisième chronique du règne de Nicolas Ier, Grasset, 2010
• François le Petit, Grasset, 2016
• Chronique d'une fin de règne, Grasset, 2017
• Quand Dieu apprenait le dessin, Grasset, 2018
• Emmanuel le Magnifique, Grasset, 2019
• Le Roman du canard, Points, 2019
• Les Cinq Plaies du Royaume, Grasset, 2020
• Morituri, Grasset, 2022

See also

• biographyportal

References

1. "Patrick Rambaud". Evene.fr. 21 April 1946. Retrieved 2016-11-13.

External links

• Media related to Patrick Rambaud at Wikimedia Commons