Alice Zeniter (born 1986) is a French novelist, translator, scriptwriter, dramatist and director.

Alice Zeniter
Zeniter in 2019
Zeniter in 2019
Born1986 (age 37–38)
Clamart, France
Alma materÉcole Normale Supérieure
Years active2003–present
Notable works
  • Juste avant l'Oubli
  • L'Art de Perdre

She has won a Prix Renaudot young adult award for her third novel, Juste avant l'Oubli, and a Prix Goncourt young adult for her fourth novel, L'Art de Perdre.

Zeniter published her first novel, Deux moins un égal zéro, at the age of 16. Her second novel, Jusque dans nos bras, was published in 2010 and translated into English as Take This Man.

Her novel, L'Art de Perdre, won multiple prizes and awards.[1] It was published in English in 2021 as The Art of Losing,[2][3] for which she won the International Dublin Literary Award along with its translator Frank Wynne.[4]

Early life

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Zeniter was born in Clamart, to an Algerian father and a French mother. She was raised in Champfleur and lived there until she was 17. She continued her studies in Alençon. From 2006 until 2011 she was a student at École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

Works

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Works in English

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  • Take this man, New York: Europa, 2012. ISBN 9781609450533, OCLC 760291543
  • The Art of Losing, (translated by Frank Wynne) London: Picador (imprint) ISBN 9781509884117, 2021; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021 ISBN 0374182302, 978-0374182304.

Novels

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Theatre

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  • Spécimens humains avec monstres, 2011
  • Hansel et Gretel, Editions Acte Sud, 2018

Translation

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  • I love Dick, Chris Kraus, Editions Flammarion, 2016

Filmography

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References

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  1. ^ "Meeting with Alice Zeniter". OpenAgenda. Retrieved 2018-11-08.
  2. ^ "The Art of Losing by Alice Zeniter". www.panmacmillan.com. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
  3. ^ "The Art of Losing (Review)". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
  4. ^ Crowley, Sinéad (23 May 2022). "French author Alice Zeniter wins 2022 Dublin Literary Award". RTÉ News. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
  5. ^ "Entretien avec Alice Zeniter : "Enfant, j'ignorais pourquoi on n'allait pas en Algérie"". Libération.fr (in French). Retrieved 2018-11-08.