Patrick Rambaud
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Patrick Rambaud (born 21 April 1946) is a French writer.
Life
[edit]Born in Paris, France, with Michel-Antoine Burnier, he wrote forty pastiches (satirical novels). They wrote Le Journalisme sans peine (Editions Plon, 1997). In 1970, he help found the iconic magazine Actuel.[1]
Awards
[edit]Rambaud received these awards for his book The Battle:
- 1997 Prix Goncourt
- 1997 Grand Prix du Roman of the Académie française
Works
[edit]English translations
[edit]- The Battle (translator Will Hobson). London: Picador, 2000; New York: Grove Press, 2001.
- The Retreat (translator Will Hobson). London: Picador, 2004; New York: Grove Press, 2004.
- The Exile (translator Shaun Whiteside). London: Picador, 2005; Napoleon's Exile. New York: Grove Press, 2006.
Publications in French
[edit]- Les Complots de la liberté, 1832, Grasset, 1976; with Michel-Antoine Burnier
- Parodies, Balland, 1977; with Michel-Antoine Burnier; parodies of Simone de Beauvoir, Per Jakez Hélias, Marguerite Duras, Louis Aragon, Henry de Montherlant, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, André Malraux, Samuel Beckett, Emmanuelle Arsan, Boris Vian, François Mallet-Joris and Philippe Sollers, François Mitterrand, Roland Barthes, André Breton, Françoise Sagan, Maurice Clavel, Gérard de Villiers, Charles de Gaulle
- Fric-frac, Grasset, 1984
- La Mort d'un ministre, Grasset, 1985
- Comment se tuer sans avoir l'air, La Table Ronde, 1986
- Virginie Q., Balland, 1988; under the pseudonym Marguerite Duraille
- Le Visage parle., Balland, 1988
- Elena Ceausescu: carnets secrets, Flammarion, 1990
- Ubu président, Robert Laffont, 1990
- 1848, Grasset, 1994
- Les Mirobolantes Aventures de Fregoli, Robert Laffont, 1991
- Le Gros Secret: mémoires du labrador de François Mitterrand, Calmann-Levy, 1996; under the pseudonym Baltique
- Mururoa mon amour, Lattès, 1996; under the pseudonym Marguerite Duraille
- La Bataille, Grasset, 1997; reprint Librairie générale française, 1999
- Le Journalisme dans peine, Plon, 1997
- Les Aventures de mai, Grasset, 1998
- Il neigeait, Grasset, 2000; reprint Librairie générale française, 2002
- Bernard Pivot reçoit…, Grasset, 2001
- Comme des rats, Grasset, 2002
- L'Absent, Grasset, 2003
- Le Sacre de Napoléon, 2 décembre 1804, Michel Lafon, 2004
- L'Idiot du village, Grasset, 2005
- Le Chat botté, Grasset, 2006
- La Grammaire en s'amusant, Grasset, 2007
- Chronique du règne de Nicolas Ier, Grasset, 2008; chronicles the first six months of Sarkozy's presidency, in pastiche of Saint-Simon)
- Deuxième chronique du règne de Nicolas Ier, Grasset, 2009
- Troisième chronique du règne de Nicolas Ier, Grasset, 2010
- François le Petit, Grasset, 2016
- Chronique d'une fin de règne, Grasset, 2017
- Quand Dieu apprenait le dessin, Grasset, 2018
- Emmanuel le Magnifique, Grasset, 2019
- Le Roman du canard, Points, 2019
- Les Cinq Plaies du Royaume, Grasset, 2020
- Morituri, Grasset, 2022
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ "Patrick Rambaud". Evene.fr. 21 April 1946. Retrieved 2016-11-13.
External links
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Media related to Patrick Rambaud at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- 1946 births
- 20th-century French journalists
- 20th-century French writers
- 21st-century French journalists
- 21st-century French writers
- French historical novelists
- Ghostwriters
- Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners
- Joseph Kessel Prize recipients
- Living people
- Prix Goncourt winners
- Writers from Paris
- 20th-century French male writers
- French male non-fiction writers