Thierry Laget

Thierry Laget (born 2 October 1959, Clermont-Ferrand) is a French novelist, essayist, literary critic and translator.

Biography A regular contributor to the , Laget participated to the edition of À la recherche du temps perdu in the bibliothèque de la Pléiade, under the direction of Jean-Yves Tadié. He has provided editions of texts by Jacques Rivière including Quelques progrès dans l'étude du cœur humain, by Marcel Proust, including Le Côté de Guermantes and Les plaisirs et les jours, then Gustave Flaubert including Madame Bovary. Thierry has also published several essays on Proust.

He translated from Italian some fifteen books, among which are three novels by Enzo Siciliano including La Nuit marâtre, La Princesse et l'Antiquaire then Les Beaux Moments as well as the novel Passage dans l'ombre by , and novels by Alessandro Barbero, including La belle vie, ou les aventures de Mr Pyle, gentilhomme, Roman russe and Poète à la barre.

Prizes 1992: prix Fénéon for Iris (Éditions Gallimard, 1991) 2012: prix Maurice Genevoix for La Lanterne d'Aristote (Gallimard, 2011) 2019: prix Céleste Albaret for Proust, Prix Goncourt. Une émeute littéraire (Gallimard, 2019)