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Revision as of 18:06, 9 January 2006 by 213.86.16.169 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Frédéric Beigbeder (born September 21 1965) is a French writer, commentator critic and pundit.
He was born into a privileged family in Neuilly-on-Seine. His mother, Christine de Chasteigner is a translator of mawkish novels (Barbara Cartland et al), his father, Jean-Michel Beigbeder, is a headhunter. He studied at the Lycée Montaigne and Louis-le-Grand, and later at Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), from which he graduated at the age of 24 and began his work as a modern renaissance man: advertising executive, author, broadcaster, publisher and dilettante.
In 1994, he founded the "Prix de Flore" (which takes its name from the famous café in Saint-Germain-des-Prés destroyed in a bomb-blast in Bret Easton Ellis' Glamorama). The prize is awarded annually to a promising young French author. Vincent Ravalec, Jacques A. Bertrand, Michel Houellebecq are among those who have won the prize. Both his novels 99 francs and Windows on the World are being adapted for the cinema. The film of Windows on the World will be directed by the French/English director Max Pugh.
He works as a publisher at Flammarion. He is divorced and has a daughter, Chloé.
His has written several, broadly autobiographical novels.
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 (14,99 euro), Grasset (translated into English as £9.99)
- 2003: Windows on the World, Grasset (translated under the same title by Frank Wynne)
- 2005: L'égoïste romantique, 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