Deleatur yhe: Created page

2026-08-31T02:09:21Z

Created page

New page

{{Short description|French author, screenwriter and film director (born 1957)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2024}}
{{Infobox writer 
| name = Emmanuel Carrère
| image = Emmanuel Carrère-7660.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Carrère in 2025
| native_name =
| native_name_lang =
| pen_name =
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1957|12|9|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Paris, France
| death_date = 
| death_place =
| resting_place =
| occupation = Writer
| language = French
| education = [[Sciences Po|Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris]]
| period =
| genre =
| subject =
| movement =
| notable_works = ''[[The Adversary (Carrère book)|The Adversary]]''; ''[[Other Lives But Mine]]''; ''[[Limonov (novel)|Limonov]]''
| spouse = Hélène Devynck (2011–2020)
| partner =
| children =
| relatives = {{unbulleted list|[[Hélène Carrère d'Encausse]] (mother)|[[Marina Carrère d'Encausse]] (sister)}}
| awards = [[Prix Renaudot]]; [[Prix Femina]]; Grand Prix de littérature Henri Gal de l'[[Académie française]]; [[Princess of Asturias Awards|Princess of Asturias Award]]
| signature =
| signature_alt =
| module =
| website = 
}}
'''Emmanuel Carrère''' ({{IPA|fr|emanɥɛl kaʁɛʁ|lang}}; born 9 December 1957) is a French author, screenwriter and film director.

==Life==
===Family===
Carrère was born into a wealthy family in the [[16th arrondissement of Paris]]. His father, Louis Carrère d'Encausse,{{efn|The family name was Carrère, to which Louis added d'Encausse, from his mother's name of Dencausse.}} is a retired insurance executive and his mother, historian [[Hélène Carrère d'Encausse]] (born Hélène Zourabichvili, the daughter of [[Georgia (country)|Georgian]] émigrés), was a member and perpetual secretary of the [[Académie française]] and former [[member of the European Parliament]].<ref name=NY22>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/07/11/emmanuel-carrere-writes-his-way-through-a-breakdown |title=Emmanuel Carrère writes his way through a breakdown |first=Ian |last=Parker |date=4 July 2022 |magazine=The New Yorker}}</ref> She was a cousin of [[President of Georgia|Georgian President]] [[Salome Zourabichvili]].<ref name=Deleuze>{{cite book |last=Zourabichvili |first=François |date=2012 |title=Deleuze: A philosophy of the event |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |page=30}}</ref> Carrère has two sisters: Nathalie, a lawyer, and [[Marina Carrère d'Encausse|Marina]], a doctor, TV presenter and novelist.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/m-actu/article/2015/09/28/nathalie-et-marina-carrere-les-s-urs-ennemies-de-l-affaire-du-mediator_4775419_4497186.html |title=Mediator : Nathalie et Marina Carrère, les sœurs "ennemies" de l'affaire |publisher=Le Monde |date=28 September 2015}}</ref> He is the nephew of composer [[Nicolas Zourabichvili]] and cousin of philosopher [[François Zourabichvili]].<ref name=Deleuze/>

===Studies===
Carrère studied at the [[Lycée Janson-de-Sailly]] and [[Sciences Po]] (the Paris Institute of Political Studies).<ref name=ParisReview>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6254/the-art-of-nonfiction-no-5-emmanuel-carrere |title=Emmanuel Carrère |date=Fall 2013 |volume=Fall 2013 |issue=206 |magazine=The Paris Review}}</ref>

===Career===
[[File:Emmanuel Carrère - Livre sur la Place 2014 (15221395521) (cropped).jpg|thumb|Emmanuel Carrère, in 2014.]]

As an alternative to military service, Carrère taught French for two years in [[Surabaya]] in Indonesia. He then became a film critic for the magazines ''[[Télérama]]'' and ''[[Positif (magazine)|Positif]]''.<ref name=ParisReview/> In 1982 his first book, a monograph on the film director [[Werner Herzog]], was published. The following year saw the publication of his first novel ''L'amie du jaguar'', in which he drew on his experiences in Indonesia.<ref name=ParisReview/> His second novel, ''[[Gothic Romance (novel)|Bravoure]]'', based on the story of [[Mary Shelley]], [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]], [[Lord Byron]], [[John William Polidori|John Polidori]] and their stay at [[Lake Geneva]] in the summer of 1816, was published in 1984. Both Carrère's first and second novels won literary prizes (the 1984 Prix Passion and 1985 Prix littéraire de la Vocation respectively), but it was his third novel, ''[[The Moustache]]'', published in 1986, that introduced the author to a wider readership. Carrère later adapted the book for [[The Moustache (film)|a film]], which he also directed and which won the ''Label Europa Cinemas'' prize at the 2005 [[Cannes Film Festival]]. An essay in which Carrère explores alternative history, ''Le détroit de Behring: introduction à l'uchronie'', was also published in 1986. In 1988 Carrère published ''Hors d'atteinte'', a novel about a woman who leaves her life to chance. His next work, published in 1993, was ''[[I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick|Je suis vivant et vous êtes morts]]'', a fictionalised biography of the American science fiction writer [[Philip K. Dick]]. This was followed by a novel, ''[[Class Trip (novel)|Class Trip]]'', which won the 1995 [[Prix Femina]] and was adapted into a [[Class Trip|film]] by [[Claude Miller]].<ref name=ParisReview/>

After the publication of ''Class Trip'', Carrère turned his attention to the case of the murderer [[Jean-Claude Romand]]. He corresponded with him in jail and attended his trial. ''[[The Adversary (Carrère book)|L'Adversaire]]'', published in 2000, became a bestseller in France and was translated into 23 languages. It was adapted into [[L'Adversaire|the film of the same name]] by director [[Nicole Garcia]].<ref name=ParisReview/> In 2007, Carrère published ''[[A Russian Novel]]'' about a visit to Russia and his Russian roots. In the book he revealed that his maternal grandfather had worked as a translator for the occupying [[German military administration in occupied France during World War II|German forces]] in World War II and had disappeared in 1944, presumably killed by members of the [[French Resistance]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/oct/19/emmanual-carrere#:~:text=The%20life%20of%20Carr%C3%A8re's%20grandfather,of%20Georgian%20independence%20in%201921. |title=Emmanuel Carrère: Betraying confidences |date=19 October 2010 |work=The Guardian}}</ref>

Carrère was on holiday in Sri Lanka when the [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami|Indian Ocean tsunami]] struck. He was in his hotel and not in any personal danger but used the experience as the inspiration for his next book, ''D'autres vies que la mienne'', published in 2009. Carrère was a member of the International jury at the [[2010 Cannes Film Festival]],<ref name="hollywoodreporter">{{cite news|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/world/news/e3i3d82e5b089623802884efcd38a037f67?pn=2 |title=Hollywood Reporter: Cannes Lineup |access-date=15 April 2010 |work=hollywoodreporter |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100422212018/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/world/news/e3i3d82e5b089623802884efcd38a037f67?pn=2 |archive-date=22 April 2010 }}</ref> was a member of the jury for the Cinéfoundation and Short Films sections of the [[2012 Cannes Film Festival]],<ref name="Cinéfoundation">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/readArticlePressRelease/58865.html |title=The Jury for the Cinéfondation and Short Films |access-date=29 March 2012 |work=Cannes Film Festival |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303201907/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/readArticlePressRelease/58865.html |archive-date=3 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and served on the Jury for the Main Competition at the [[72nd Venice International Film Festival|2015 Venice Film Festival]], chaired by [[Alfonso Cuarón]]. In 2011, he published ''[[Limonov (novel)|Limonov]]'', a biographical novel about the Russian writer and political dissident [[Eduard Limonov]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/24/julian-barnes-limonov-emmanuel-carrere-punk |title=Julian Barnes on Limonov by Emmanuel Carrère review – portrait of a political punk |date=24 October 2014 |work=The Guardian}}</ref>

''[[The Kingdom (Carrère novel)|The Kingdom]]'', a novel about the rise of early Christianity, was published in 2014.<ref>{{cite magazine | magazine =[[The New Yorker]] | url = https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/10/the-radical-origins-of-christianity | date= 3 July 2017 | access-date = 9 April 2019 | title = The Radical Origins of Christianity | first = James | last = Wood }}</ref> The book provoked a scandal at the [[Franciscan University of Steubenville]] and the head of the English Department, who had included the book in the syllabus for an advanced seminar, was removed from his post.<ref>{{cite news | access-date = 14 April 2019 | url = https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/01/15/franciscan-u-bans-book-portrays-virgin-mary-sexual-and-ousts-department-chair-who | work = Inside Higher Ed | title = Banning a Book, in the Name of 'True Academic Freedom' | date = 15 January 2019 | first= Colleen |last= Flaherty}}</ref> In 2016 Carrère published a collection of his journalism, ''{{ill|97,196 Words|lt=Il est avantageux d'avoir où aller|fr|Il est avantageux d'avoir où aller}}''. An edition published in English in 2019 with the title ''97,196 Words: Essays'' includes an article on [[Emmanuel Macron]] written in 2017 for ''[[The Guardian]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal |language=en-GB |first1=Emmanuel |last1=Carrère |title=Orbiting Jupiter: my week with Emmanuel Macron |periodical=The Guardian |date=20 October 2017 |issn=0261-3077 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/oct/20/emmanuel-macron-orbiting-jupiter-emmanuel-carrere |access-date=2018-12-06}}.</ref> In his 2020 book ''[[Yoga (book)|Yoga]]'', Carrère writes about his experience of depression and four months spent in the [[Sainte-Anne Hospital Center|Sainte-Anne Hospital]] in Paris, where he was diagnosed as [[Bipolar II disorder|bipolar]] and treated with [[ketamine]], [[electroconvulsive therapy]] and [[Lithium (medication)|lithium]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/may/19/there-are-no-words-for-the-horror-the-story-of-my-madness |title='There are no words for the horror': the story of my madness |first=Emmanuel |last=Carrère |date=19 May 2022 |work=The Guardian }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Domestico, Anthony |date=February 2023 |title=Continuing not to die |journal=Commonweal |volume=150 |issue=2 |pages=48–50 |url=https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/continuing-not-die |url-access=limited }}. The online version of the article is dated February 17, 2023.</ref>

From September 2021 to June 2022 Carrère followed the [[Paris attacks trial|trial of the November 2015 Paris attacks]]. His weekly articles were published in ''[[L'Obs]]'' in France, ''[[El País]]'' in Spain, ''[[la Repubblica]]'' in Italy and ''[[Le Temps]]'' in Switzerland.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ouest-france.fr/faits-divers/attentats-paris/proces/proces-du-13-novembre-emmanuel-carrere-publiera-en-septembre-ses-chroniques-judiciaires-f4d44dfa-d5e3-11ec-9a86-07eb4bd130d9 |title=Procès du 13-Novembre : Emmanuel Carrère publiera en septembre ses chroniques judiciaires |date=17 May 2022 |publisher=ouest-france}}</ref> In September 2022 his articles, with additional material, were published in the form of a book with the title ''[[V13 (book)|V13]]''. (In France the trial is known as V13 as the attacks took place on Friday ({{langx|fr|link=no|vendredi}}) the 13th.)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.lematin.ch/story/un-premier-livre-sur-le-proces-des-jihadistes-354465806307|title=Carrère sort le premier livre sur le procès des jihadistes|date=1 September 2022|newspaper=[[Le Matin (Switzerland)|Le Matin]]}}</ref> He was awarded the 2022 {{ill|Prix Aujourd'hui|fr}} for the book.<ref>{{cite web|title=Emmanuel Carrère, lauréat du prix Aujourd'hui 2022|url=https://www.lepoint.fr/societe/emmanuel-carrere-laureat-du-prix-aujourd-hui-2022--13-10-2022-2493616_23.php|date=13 October 2022|publisher=Le Point}}</ref>

===Personal life===
Carrère has been married twice and has a daughter and two sons.<ref name=ParisReview/>

== Style ==
Carrère's work ranges freely between genres and is concerned with the themes of identity, illusion and reality.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thenewinquiry.com/they-were-like-us-we-were-like-them/ |title=They were like us and we were like them |last=Elkin |first=Lauren |date=20 July 2012 |publisher=The New Inquiry}}</ref> His prose has been described as "spare and supple".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/13/97196-words-essays-emmanuel-carrere-review |title=97,196 Words by Emmanuel Carrère review – essays from a French superstar writer |last=Hughes |first=Kathryn |date=13 December 2019 |work=The Guardian }}</ref>

==Awards==
*1984: Prix Passion
*1985: [[Prix littéraire de la vocation]]
*1987: [[Grand Prix de l'imaginaire]] – Prix spécial
*1988: Prix Charles-Oulmont
*1988: Prix Kléber-Haedens
*1995: [[Prix Femina]]
*2007: {{ill|Prix Duménil|fr}}
*2009: Prix Marie-Claire; prix Crésus
*2010: {{ill|Grand prix de littérature Henri-Gal|fr}} from the [[Académie française]]
*2011: [[Prix Renaudot]]; Prix de la langue française
*2012: [[Premio Malaparte]]
*2014: {{ill|Prix littéraire du Monde|fr}}; "Meilleur livre de l'année", awarded by Lire
*2015: [[Mondello Prize]]
*2016: [[Tomasi di Lampedusa]] Literary Prize
*2017: Prix FIL de littérature en langues romanes.
*2018: Prix de la [[Bibliothèque nationale de France]] (BnF)
*2019: [[Premio Hemingway]]
*2021: [[Princess of Asturias Award]] for Literature; [[Visions du Réel]] Honorary Award; [[Taobuk Award]] for Literary Excellence; [[Premio Napoli]]
*2022: {{ill|Prix Aujourd'hui|fr}}
*2025: [[Prix Médicis]]<ref>{{cite news |last=Birnbaum |first=Jean |author-link=Jean Birnbaum |date=5 November 2025 |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/en/culture/article/2025/11/05/emmanuel-carrere-wins-prix-medicis-for-kolkhoze_6747142_30.html |title=Emmanuel Carrère wins Prix Médicis for 'Kolkhoze' |url-access=subscription |newspaper=[[Le Monde]] |access-date=5 November 2025 }}</ref>

==Bibliography==
* ''Werner Herzog'' (1982)
* ''L'Amie du jaguar'' (''The Jaguar's Friend'') (1983)
* ''[[Gothic Romance (novel)|Bravoure]]'' (1984) (translated as ''Gothic Romance'', 1990)
* ''Le Détroit de Behring'' (''The Behring Strait'') (1984) (German: ''[[Cleopatra|Kleopatras]] Nase. Kleine Geschichte der [[Uchronie]].'' Gatza, Berlin 1993.)
* ''[[The Moustache|La Moustache]]'' (1986) (translated as ''The Moustache'', 1988)
* ''Hors d'atteinte'' (''Out of Reach'') (1988)
* ''[[I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick|Je suis vivant et vous êtes morts]]'' (1993) (''I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick'', translated by Timothy Bent, 2005).
* ''[[Class Trip (novel)|La Classe de neige]]'' (1995) (''Class Trip: A Novel'', translated by Linda Coverdale, 1997). Winner of the [[Prix Fémina]] Adapted in 1998 as the film of the same name directed by [[Claude Miller]].
* ''[[The Adversary (Carrère book)|L'Adversaire]]'' (2000) (''The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception'', translated by Linda Coverdale, 2002).
* ''[[A Russian Novel|Un roman russe]]'' (2007) (''A Russian Novel'' (UK)/''My Life as a Russian Novel'' (US), translated by Linda Coverdale, 2010)
*''[[Other Lives But Mine|D'autres vies que la mienne]]'' (2009) (''Other Lives But Mine'' (UK) and ''Lives Other Than My Own'' (US), translated by Linda Coverdale, 2012)
* ''[[Limonov (novel)|Limonov]]'' (2011), a biography of [[Eduard Limonov]] (''Limonov: The Outrageous Adventures'', translated by John Lambert, 2015)
* ''[[The Kingdom (Carrère novel)|Le Royaume]]'' (2014) (''The Kingdom: A Novel'', translated by John Lambert, 2017)
* ''{{ill|97,196 Words|lt=Il est avantageux d'avoir où aller|fr|Il est avantageux d'avoir où aller}}'' (2016) (''97,196 Words: Essays'', partial translation into English by John Lambert, 2019)
* ''[[Yoga (book)|Yoga]]'' (2020), (translated by John Lambert, 2022)
* ''[[V13 (book)|V13]]'' (2022)
* ''[[Kolkhoze]]'' (2025)

==Selected filmography==
* 1996: ''[[la Classe de Neige]]'' by [[Claude Miller]], adapted from Carrère's book of the same name.
* 2002: ''[[L'Adversaire]]'' by [[Nicole Garcia]] and [[Daniel Auteuil]], screenwriter.
* 2003: ''[[Back to Kotelnich]]'', director.
* 2005: ''[[The Moustache (film)|The Moustache]]'', director and screenwriter, along with [[Emmanuelle Devos]] and [[Vincent Lindon]].
* 2009: ''[[I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive]]'', based on an article by Carrère.
* 2011: ''[[All Our Desires]]'', adapted from his book ''[[Other Lives But Mine]]''.
* 2021: ''[[Between Two Worlds (2021 film)|Between Two Worlds]]'', loosely adapted from [[Florence Aubenas]]'s book ''The Cleaning Lady''.

==Notes==
{{notelist}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/21/emmanuel-carrere-most-important-french-writer-youve-never-heard-of Emmanuel Carrère: the most important French writer you've never heard of], Robert McCrum, ''The Guardian'', 21 September 2014
*{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070926234717/http://www.mathieu-bourgois.com/photos-auteur.asp?Clef=627 Emmanuel Carrère]}} – Photos by Mathieu Bourgois.
*{{IMDb name|141127}}

{{Emmanuel Carrère}}
{{Mondello Prize}}
{{Princess of Asturias Award for Literature}}
{{Prix Femina}}
{{Prix Renaudot}}
{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Carrere, Emmanuel}}
[[Category:1957 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Writers from Paris]]
[[Category:French male screenwriters]]
[[Category:French screenwriters]]
[[Category:20th-century French novelists]]
[[Category:20th-century French male novelists]]
[[Category:21st-century French novelists]]
[[Category:French people of Georgian descent]]
[[Category:French people of Russian descent]]
[[Category:Prix Femina winners]]
[[Category:Prix Renaudot winners]]
[[Category:French film directors]]
[[Category:Sciences Po alumni]]
[[Category:20th-century French biographers]]
[[Category:21st-century French male novelists]]
[[Category:French male biographers]]
[[Category:Zourabichvili family]]

Emmanuel Carrère - Revision history

Deleatur yhe: Created page