Yann Apperry

Yann Apperry (born 1972) is a French novelist, librettist, screenwriter, and translator. He is a recipient of the Prix Médicis, the Prix Goncourt des lycéens and the Writer's Fellowship of the Fondation Hachette. A former resident of the French Academy at Rome, he was also a resident of Villa Kujoyama and Randell Cottage in Wellington, New Zealand.^[1] He is one of the founders of Groupe Ouest^[2] and Abalone Productions.^[3] He has been performing since 2006 with Claude Barthélemy in the musical duo Bruit Blanc.

Publications

Novels

• 1997: Qui Vive, Éditions de Minuit
• 1999: Paradoxe du ciel nocturne, Éditions Grasset
• 2000: Diabolus in Musica, Grasset
• 2003: Farrago, Grasset
• 2008: Terre sans maître, Grasset

Theatre

• 2003: Les Hommes sans aveu, Actes Sud

Youth literature

• 2009: L'Île aux histoires, with Tanja Siren, L'École des loisirs [fr]

Theater and musical performances

• 2002: Mercure apocryphe, directed by Valérie Crunchant
• 2002: Je dirai ceci d'obscur, Petit Odéon, Théâtre de l'Odéon
• 2003: Les Hommes sans aveu, Théâtre du Gymnase (Marseille), Théâtre National de Chaillot
• 2009: Terra Vagans, Théâtre du Gymnase
• 2010: Calvino Reloaded, Festival des Correspondances de Manosque, La Dynamo
• 2012: Mineurs, with pupils of collège Maurice de Vlaminck in Brezolles

Radio

• 2002: Les Sentimentales funérailles, France Culture, music by Massimo Nunzi
• 2008: Bruit Blanc, France Culture, with Claude Barthélémy
• 2012: La Foire aux chansons, France Culture, music by Régis Huby
• 2012: Calvinologie, France Culture, music by Massimo Nunzi.^[4]

Scripts

• 2007: 24 mesures, by Jalil Lespert
• 2013: YSL, by Jalil Lespert, contribution to the script

Discography

• 1999:Vuoti a perdere, bande originale du film, music by Massimo Nunzi
• 2010: All Around, Abalone-Oenso, music by Régis Huby
• 2011: Lieder, 3=Tomato, record by Claude Barthélémy

Translations

• 2002 : IX variations sur un thème de Balthus, Horacio Amigorena, Absteme & Bobance
• 2007: Tessons roses, Ornela Vorpsi, Actes Sud
• 2014: Alex's Baby, Anne de Pasquale, Marabout

Prizes

• 1997: Prix Bretagne for Qui vive
• 1997: Boursier de la Fondation Hachette
• 2000: Prix Médicis for Diabolus in musica
• 2002: Grand Prix international de la fiction radiophonique Paul Gilson for Les Sentimentales funérailles
• 2003: Prix Goncourt des lycéens for Farrago

References

External links

• Yann Apperry on Babelio
• Yann Apperry : Farrago on INA.fr (19 January 2004)
• Farrago on L'Express (1 November 2003)
• Yann Apperry on France Culture