François Weyergans

The son of a Belgian father and a French mother actually wanted to be a film Director: in 1961, he goes to Paris at a film school. There he writes for the magazine Cahiers du cinéma, and rotates the first, mostly documentary short films. In the seventies the films Maladie mortelle and Couleur chair (with Dennis Hopper and Bianca Jagger) arise. Because of the success, fails, moves Weyergans to the Letter: in 1973, the satirical novel, Le pitre, the preparation of a treatment at the famous psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan appears. The paper finds a positive response in the French Feuilleton, and won the prestigious Prix Nimier. With his following novels weyergans established itself as one of the outstanding stylists of French literature. Be playful, self-reflexive and self-ironic narrative style leads to comparisons with Laurence Sterne, Jean Paul, but also with Woody Allen. In 1997, the semi-autobiographical novel, Franz and François that makes him a bigger audience appears. In 2005 he received for the novel Trois jour chez ma mère the most famous French literary prize, the Prix Goncourt. The decision provides for some Controversy, because of him the Jury prefers the controversial novel La possibilité d'une île by Michel Houellebecq. Weyergans referred to themselves as "movie buffs, turning movies": "I prefer the novel as a means of expression. He is more precise, more subtle and rich than a movie.“ 26. In July 2009, he was elected to the Académie française. He took the armchair 32 on 16. June 2011.