- Sep 26, 2011 from 3:00pm to 4:30pm EDT
- Location: La Maison Française of NYU
- Latest Activity: Aug 21, 2019
French Literature in the Making (in French)
MARC DUGAIN
Novelist; author of La Chambre des officiers; La Malédiction d’Edgar; Heureux comme Dieu en France; Une exécution ordinaire; L’Insomnie des étoiles
in conversation with
OLIVIER BARROT
Writer, journalist, Un Livre un jour (France 3)
Marc Dugain was born in 1957 in Senegal, but his family moved back to France when he was 7. While still a child, Marc accompanied his grandfather on a visit to "La maison des Gueules cassées", a chateau that housed soldiers from World War I who had been victims of facial mutilations. This became the subject of Dugain’s first novel, La Chambre des officiers (1998) (The Officer’s Ward, 2003), a best seller that won some twenty literary prizes including the prestigious Prix des Libraires, Prix des Deux-Magots and Prix Roger Nimier. more on French Literature in the Making
Presented with the additional support of Open Skies, Sofitel, Institut Français, Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
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