Karine Tuil

Karine Tuil is a French novelist born on May 3, 1972, in Paris. After her baccalaureate, she studied law, and obtained a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Communication Law at the University of Paris II (Panthéon Assas).[1] . She was practicing as a lawyer but prepared a thesis she did not support so she decided to devote herself to writing.

Career

Her first published novel, Pour le Pire, was noticed by Jean-Marie Rouart[2] . It was published in September of 2000 by Plon publishing house and It tells of the slow decomposition of a couple.

Her second novel, Forbidden, (Plon 2001) – a satirical account of the identity crisis of an old Jew – was a critical and public success. Selected for several prizes including the prize Goncourt, Forbidden obtains the price Wizo. It is translated in several languages and adapted to the theater by Salomé Lelouch in 2014 under the title The marriage of Mr Wessmann [3][4] .

With a sense of irony and tragi-comedy, Jewish humor is still found in Female Sex in 2002; a harsh comedy about mother-daughter relationships. This third novel concludes her trilogy on the Jewish family.

In 2003, she joins Éditions Grasset, where she publishes her fourth novel Tout sur mon frère, which explores the negative effects of autofiction. (nominated for the Booksellers' Prize and finalist for the France-Television Award ).

In 2005, she published When I Was Funny, which tells the story of a French comedy in New York.

In 2007, Douce France appeared, a social novel that unveils the operations of administrative detention centers.

In 2008, she released her seventh novel, Domination, for which she received the Stendhal Scholarship from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It tells of the power games in the publishing world through the prisms of identity. It was one of the first selections for the Goncourt prize , the Goncourt high school prize and the Flore prize .

In 2010, her novel Six Months, Six Days is part of the first and second selection of the 2010 Goncourt Prize, the first selection of the Interallié Prize and the Goncourt high school students' prize. In 2011, she won the prix littéraire du Roman News [5] .

Her ninth novel entitled L'Invention de nos vies[6][7][8] was published in September of 2013 by the Grasset publishing house. This novel looks at "the story of a young man of Arab descent, Samir, who, to succeed in his career as a business lawyer in New York," borrows "part of the identity of his best childhood friend, a Jew named Samuel[9] " . The novel appeared in several selections of literary prizes, among which was the Femina, Interallié, Goncourt, Goncourt high school students, and the prix des libraires. It was a finalist of the Goncourt Prize.[10] L'Invention de nos vies was translated in several countries including Great Britain, the United States (under the title The age of reinvention[11][12] ), Canada,[13] Italy [14][15] , China, Greece, the Netherlands[16] , and Germany[17] .

Her novel The Insouciance was published in 2016. On the publication of this tenth novel, the newspaper Le Monde in 2016 writes, on all her books: "Some themes are obvious. For example the Jewishness of the characters. And subsequently: the father, the law, the Kafkaesque humor - Insouciance adds in the author's Letter to the father[18] " . The novel won the Landerneau Prize for readers .

Awards and distinctions

  • 2011, Fiction News Prize for Six Months, Six Days 5
  • Prix littéraires Les Lauriers Verts (The Green Laurels Literary Award) in the 2013 fiction category for the L'Invention de nos vies[19] .
  • On Wednesday, April 23, 2014, Karine Tuil received Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres(The Knight's Order Insignia of arts and letters), given by Aurélie Filippetti , Minister of Culture and Communication[20]
  • The Carefree was selected in 2016 for the Goncourt prize – the grand prize of the French Academy – and the Interallié, and received the Landerneau Prize of the readers on October 5th[21], 2016 21 .
  • On March 23, 2017, Ms. Audrey Azoulay, Minister of Culture and Communication awarded her the rank of Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters.

Works

  • 2000 : Pour le pire (Éditions Plon, Pocket 11352) ( ISBN 2-259-19294-7 )
  • 2001 : Interdit (Plon Publishing, Pocket 11613, Grasset 2010, Paperback) ( ISBN 2-259-19520-2 )
  • 2002 : Du sexe féminin (Plon Editions, Pocket 11941, Pocket Book) ( ISBN 2-259-19708-6 )
  • 2003 : Tout sur mon frère (Éditions Grasset, Paperback 30276) ( ISBN 2-246-65401-7 )
  • 2005 : Quand j'étais drôle (Éditions Grasset, Livre de Poche) ( ISBN 2-246-65411-4 )
  • 2007 : Douce France (Grasset Publishing, Paperback) ( ISBN 2246709911 )
  • 2008 : La Domination (Grasset Publishing, Paperback) ( ISBN 2246739217 )
  • 2010 : Six mois, six jours (Éditions Grasset, Livre de Poche) ( ISBN 978-2246758310 )
  • 2013 : L'Invention de nos vies (Éditions Grasset, Livre de Poche) ( ISBN 978-2-246-80752-0 )
  • 2016 : L'Insouciance 18 (Editions Gallimard) ( ISBN 978-2-070-14619-2 )
Participation
  • 2017: Collective, Qu'est-ce que la gauche? , Fayard

Adaptation of her work

  • 2014 - 2015: The Wedding of Mr Wessmann , based in the work Forbidden , adaptation of Salomé Lelouch[3][4] , theater La Bruyère[22] from October 2014 to June 2015; Avignon Festival in July 2015.

References

  1. ↑ "Auteurs français contemporains (S à Z) - aLaLettre". www.alalettre.com. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  2. ↑ "Karine Tuil : "Un livre doit être dangereux"". Profondeur de champs (in French). 2012-05-17. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  3. 1 2 "Le Mariage de M. Weissmann - Spectacles dans le Grand Paris". Télérama.fr (in French). Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  4. 1 2 "Dans la veine de Woody Allen". leparisien.fr (in French). 2014-12-14CET07:00:00+01:00. Retrieved 2018-04-20. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ↑ "Six mois, six jours, de Karine Tuil". FIGARO (in French). 2011-08-26. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  6. ↑ "«L'Invention de nos vies» par Karine Tuil, terriblement efficace". RFI (in French). 2013-12-23. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  7. ↑ Cocquet, Marion (2013-08-04). "Rentrée littéraire 2013 - Karine Tuil ou les grandes espérances". Le Point (in French). Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  8. ↑ "D'une identité à l'autre, Karine Tuil". Le Huffington Post (in French). 2013-08-28. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  9. ↑ "Karine Tuil : sexe, mensonges et trahisons". FIGARO (in French). 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  10. ↑ "VIDÉOS. Goncourt 2013: les quatre finalistes dévoilés". Le Huffington Post (in French). 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  11. ↑ Charles, Ron (2015-11-23). "'The Age of Reinvention' review: A novel of Islamophobia and deception". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  12. ↑ Memmott, Carol. "French novel 'The Age of Reinvention' spotlights the pitfalls of Islamophobia". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  13. ↑ "Karine Tuil's timely novel explores being a Muslim Arab in France | The Star". thestar.com. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  14. ↑ "L'invenzione della vita". ufficiostampa.sperling.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  15. ↑ "La nuova vita di Samuel piena di bugie - la Repubblica.it". Archivio - la Repubblica.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  16. ↑ "Athenaeum Boekhandel | Een verzonnen leven". Athenaeum Boekhandel (in Dutch). Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  17. ↑ Buß, Christian (2014-08-20). "Aufsteigerroman "Die Gierigen": Das System ist böse? Ich bin böser!". Spiegel Online. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  18. ↑ "Karine Tuil, voix singulière du roman français". Le Monde.fr (in French). Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  19. ↑ lalettre (2013-10-15). "la Forêt des Livres 2013 Les Lauriers Verts". www.lalettredulibraire.com (in French). Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  20. ↑ "Karine Tuil lauréate du Prix Landerneau des Lecteurs 2016" (in French). Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  21. ↑ "Karine Tuil lauréate du Prix Landerneau des Lecteurs 2016" (in French). Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  22. ↑ "Théâtre La Bruyère » – Le Mariage de M. Weissmann". www.theatrelabruyere.com. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
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