Iegor Gran Explained
Iegor Gran (born Iegor Andreyevich Siniavsky, 23 December 1964, Moscow) is a Russian-born French novelist.
Early life
Iegor Gran was born on 23 December 1964 in Moscow, Russia.[1] His father, Andrei Sinyavsky, was a Russian writer and dissident who was jailed from 1964 to 1971.[1] His mother, Maria Rozanova, was a publisher and an editor.[1] His family moved to France in 1973, when he was nine years old.[1] He graduated from the École Centrale Paris.[1]
Career
He published his first novel, Ipso facto, in 1998. He went on to write eleven more novels, some of which are critiques of political correctness.[1] His twelfth novel, La Revanche de Kevin, is about a novelist who feels bad about being named Kevin.[2]
He has written a bi-monthly column in Charlie Hebdo since 2011.[3]
Personal life
He is married to Catherine Gran, a painter.[1] They live in Paris.[1]
Bibliography
- Ipso facto (Paris: Éditions P.O.L, 1998).
- Acné festival (Paris: P.O.L., 1999).
- Spécimen mâle (Paris: P.O.L., 2001).
- ONG ! (Paris: P.O.L., 2003).
- Le Truoc-Nog (Paris: P.O.L., 2003).
- Jeanne d'Arc fait tic-tac (Paris: P.O.L., 2005).
- Les Trois Vies de Lucie (Paris: P.O.L., 2006).
- Thriller (Paris: P.O.L., 2009).
- L’écologie en bas de chez moi (Paris: P.O.L., 2011).
- L'Ambition (Paris: P.O.L., 2013).
- Vilaines Pensées, Les Échappés (2014).
- La Revanche de Kevin (Paris: P.O.L., 2015).
- Le Retour de Russie (Paris: P.O.L, 2016).
- Écrire à l'élastique (Paris, P.O.L, 2017).
- Rêve plus vite, camarade ! L'industrie du slogan en URSS de 1918 à 1935 (Paris: Les Échappés, 2017).
- Les Services compétents (Paris: P.O.L, 2020).
- Ces casseroles qui applaudissent aux fenêtres (Paris: P.O.L, 2020)
- Le Journal d'Alix (Paris: P.O.L, 2022).
- Z Comme Zombie (Paris: P.O.L., 2022).
Notes and References
- Murielle Lucie Clément, Écrivains franco-russes, Rodopi, 2008, pp. 207-211 https://books.google.com/books?id=qzMJE2ZQSV8C&dq=Iegor+Gran&pg=PA207
- Charles Gautier, VIDÉO. "ONPC" : Iegor Gran déchaîne les "Kevin" sur Twitter, un écrivain qui fait du bien, Le Nouvel Observateur, 19 April 2015
- Natalie Levisalles, Iegor Gran: «"Charlie Hebdo", c'est un monument», Libération, 7 January 2015
