Hadrien Laroche

Hadrien Laroche (; born 13 November 1963) is a French writer.

Biography Born in Paris in 1963, Hadrien Laroche is a former student of the Ecole normale supérieure. He was visiting professor at Dartmouth College (1985–1986) and a fellow of the School of Criticism and Theory. There he met Jacques Derrida and Patricia Williams. He completed his doctorate in philosophy under Derrida in 1996 at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS); Derrida considered Laroche his last doctoral student, and as "one of the most talented and original thinkers of his generation." He has worked for the past two decades as part of the French Foreign Ministry, and is currently cultural attaché of the French consulate in Toronto.

Works He has published essays on Jean Genet, Paul Cézanne, Marcel Duchamp ("La machine à signatures", Inculte #18, 2009), and three French-language novels—Les Orphelins (Paris: Allia/J'ai Lu, 2005), Les Heretiques (Paris: Flammarion, 2006), and La Restitution (Paris: Flammarion, 2009) —which have placed him at the forefront of contemporary French writing.

For the centenary of Jean Genet's birth, Arsenal Pulp Press has published a translation of his essay The Last Genet, a writer in revolt, translated by David Homel. The book was presented at Nottingham Contemporary (UK). The book has been widely acclaimed by Bernard Henry Levy.

He has been a correspondent for Les Inrockuptibles. He has done interviews with Bret Easton Ellis, Hubert Selby Jr., and other French and American writers.

For the Maison des écrivains et des traducteurs étranger meetings, he has been the editor of the magazine for the meeting Le Caire/Vancouver (2008) and the meet no. 16 Quito/Dublin (2012). He has participated in a meeting no.6 and was the director of the centenary conference Pour Genet, at the Abbaye de Fontevraud in 2010.

English The Last Genet: a writer in revolt, trans. by David Homel (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2010). . Orphans, trans. by Jan Steyn and Caite Dolan-Leach (Dalkey Archive Press, 2014). . Marcel Duchamp: The signature's machine, trans. by Molleen Shilliday, in Breathless Days, 1959, 1960, editors: Serge Guilbaut, John O Brian (Duke University Press, 2017). .

French Novels 2005 Les Orphelins, Allia, J'ai Lu. 2007 Les Hérétiques, Flammarion 2009 La Restitution, Flammarion

Essays 1997 Le Dernier Genet, Histoire des hommes infâmes, Seuil, Fiction & Cie, nommé pour le prix Fémina 2001 Face à la Pente, in Valère Novarina, Théâtres du verbe, Corti 2009 La Machine à signatures, Marcel Duchamp, Incultes, #18 2014 Duchamp Déchets, Les hommes, les objets, la catastrophe, Editions du Regard

Non-fiction 1999 Le Miroir chinois, Le Seuil.

Poetry 1990 au pire, mem/Arte Facts

Articles "Marcel Duchamp. La machine à signatures" in inculte, n° 18, 2009, pp. 41–65. "Dans le tramway avec W.G Sebald", in Face à Sebald, édition inculte, 2011, pp. 289-305. "Court traité de la décision en deux pages", in Jacques Derrida L'événement déconstruction, Les Temps modernes, n° 669–670, Gallimard, July/December 2012.