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Tanguy Viel

b. 1973

French writer

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Born 1973. Tanguy Viel is a French writer.

Tanguy Viel (7 July 1973, Brest) is a French writer. A resident at the Villa Médicis in 2003–2004, Tanguy Viel was awarded the Prix Fénéon and the Prix littéraire de la vocation for his novel L'absolue perfection du crime. He also won the Grand prix RTL-Lire for Article 353 du Code pénal in 2017. Other Press in New York published the translation by William Rodarmor in March, 2019. La fille qu'on appelle was one of nine novels in the second selection for the 2021 Prix Goncourt.

Works Novels and short stories 1998 : Le Black Note, Paris, Éditions de Minuit 1999 : Cinéma, Éditions de Minuit 2000 : Tout s'explique: réflexions à partir d'« Explications » de Pierre Guyotat, Paris, 2001 : L'Absolue perfection du crime, Éditions de Minuit, Prix Fénéon and Prix littéraire de la vocation, 2002 : Maladie, Inventaire-Invention 2006 : Insoupçonnable, Éditions de Minuit 2009 : Paris-Brest, Éditions de Minuit 2009 : Cet homme-là, Paris, 2010 : Hitchcock par exemple, illustrations by Florent Chavouet, Editions Naïve. 2010 : Un jour dans la vie, Lyon, published by librairie Passages 2013 : La Disparition de Jim Sullivan, Éditions de Minuit 2017 : Article 353 du Code pénal (Éditions de Minuit). Translated into English as Article 353 by William Rodarmor (Other Press. New York). 2021 : La fille qu'on appelle, Éditions de Minuit Interviews 2002 : Tanguy Viel parle des Éditions de Minuit (interviews with Amandine Riant and Marie-Thérèse Roinet), Saint-Cloud, Université de Paris X, Pôle des métiers du livre 2008 : "Tanguy Viel : imaginaire d'un romancier contemporain", interview with , @nalyses (Université d'Ottawa)

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Fénéon Prize for literature; Resident at the Villa Medici; Prix littéraire de la vocation; César Award for Best Original Screenplay; Prix du roman de la Ville de Carhaix; Grand prix RTL-Lire; European Prize for Literature; Prix François Mauriac (Aquitaine)

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Who is Tanguy Viel?

French writer

When was Tanguy Viel born?

Tanguy Viel was born on 7 July 1973 in Brest.

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Tanguy Viel is a writer.

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Tanguy Viel is French.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Tanguy Viel

· Wikidata: Q462349

· DBpedia: Tanguy Viel

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