Yann Apperry
Yann Apperry (born 1972) is a French novelist, librettist, screenwriter, and translator. He is a recipient of the Prix Médicis, the Prix Goncourt des lycéens and the Writer's Fellowship of the Fondation Hachette. A former resident of the French Academy at Rome, he was also a resident of Villa Kujoyama and Randell Cottage in Wellington, New Zealand.[1] He is one of the founders of Groupe Ouest[2] and Abalone Productions.[3] He has been performing since 2006 with Claude Barthélemy in the musical duo Bruit Blanc.
Publications
[edit]Novels
[edit]- 1997: Qui Vive, Éditions de Minuit
- 1999: Paradoxe du ciel nocturne, Éditions Grasset
- 2000: Diabolus in Musica, Grasset
- 2003: Farrago, Grasset
- 2008: Terre sans maître, Grasset
Theatre
[edit]- 2003: Les Hommes sans aveu, Actes Sud
Youth literature
[edit]- 2009: L'Île aux histoires, with Tanja Siren, L'École des loisirs
Theater and musical performances
[edit]- 2002: Mercure apocryphe, directed by Valérie Crunchant
- 2002: Je dirai ceci d'obscur, Petit Odéon, Théâtre de l'Odéon
- 2003: Les Hommes sans aveu, Théâtre du Gymnase (Marseille), Théâtre National de Chaillot
- 2009: Terra Vagans, Théâtre du Gymnase
- 2010: Calvino Reloaded, Festival des Correspondances de Manosque, La Dynamo
- 2012: Mineurs, with pupils of collège Maurice de Vlaminck in Brezolles
Radio
[edit]- 2002: Les Sentimentales funérailles, France Culture, music by Massimo Nunzi
- 2008: Bruit Blanc, France Culture, with Claude Barthélémy
- 2012: La Foire aux chansons, France Culture, music by Régis Huby
- 2012: Calvinologie, France Culture, music by Massimo Nunzi.[4]
Scripts
[edit]- 2007: 24 mesures, by Jalil Lespert
- 2013: YSL, by Jalil Lespert, contribution to the script
Discography
[edit]- 1999:Vuoti a perdere, bande originale du film, music by Massimo Nunzi
- 2010: All Around, Abalone-Oenso, music by Régis Huby
- 2011: Lieder, 3=Tomato, record by Claude Barthélémy
Translations
[edit]- 2002 : IX variations sur un thème de Balthus, Horacio Amigorena, Absteme & Bobance
- 2007: Tessons roses, Ornela Vorpsi, Actes Sud
- 2014: Alex's Baby, Anne de Pasquale, Marabout
Prizes
[edit]- 1997: Prix Bretagne for Qui vive
- 1997: Boursier de la Fondation Hachette
- 2000: Prix Médicis for Diabolus in musica
- 2002: Grand Prix international de la fiction radiophonique Paul Gilson for Les Sentimentales funérailles
- 2003: Prix Goncourt des lycéens for Farrago
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- Yann Apperry on Babelio
- Yann Apperry : Farrago on INA.fr (19 January 2004)
- Farrago on L'Express (1 November 2003)
- Yann Apperry on France Culture
