Emmanuel Carrère

Carrère is the son of Louis Édouard Carrère, often known as Louis Carrère d'Encausse, after his mother, the historian and Académie française member,[6] Hélène Carrère d'Encausse. His maternal grandfather, Georges Zourabichvili, immigrated from Georgia to France in the early 1920s. He is also a cousin of the philosopher François Zourabichvili.

Carrère studied at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (better known as Sciences Po). Much of his writing, both fiction and nonfiction, centers around the primary themes of the interrogation of identity, the development of illusion and the direction of reality. He has also been an important reference for the "autofiction" movement in English, as he has "excelled at creating narratives that range freely between genres."[7] Several of his books have been made into films, and he directed the film adaptation of his novel La Moustache. He was the president of the jury of the book Inter 2003.

He was a member of the International jury at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.[8] He was a member of the jury for the Cinéfoundation and Short Films sections of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.[9]

In 2015, he was named as a member of the Jury for the Main Competition at the 2015 Venice Film Festival. The festival was chaired by Alfonso Cuarón.

In January 2019, the conservative Catholic website Church Militant charged that passages from Carrère's The Kingdom assigned to students at Franciscan University of Steubenville by an English professor were "blasphemous and pornographic." The university's president removed the professor from his position as head of the English Department and apologized to "our Blessed Mother and her Son, and to anyone who has been scandalized by this incident."[10][11]

2019: Premio Hemingway

2017: Prix FIL de littérature en langues romanes.

2018: Prix de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF)

2016: Tomasi di Lampedusa Literary Prize

2015: Mondello Prize

2014: Prix littéraire Monde; "Meilleur livre de l'année", awarded by Lire

2011: Prix Renaudot; Prix de la langue française

2010: Grand Prix de littérature Henri Gal de l'Académie française

2009: Prix Marie-Claire; prix Crésus

2007: Prix Duménil

1995: Prix Femina

1988: Prix Charles-Oulmont

1988: Prix Kléber-Haedens

1987: Grand Prix de l'imaginaire

1985: Prix littéraire de la Vocation

1984: Prix Passion

• Werner Herzog (1982)
• L'Amie du jaguar (The Jaguar's Friend) (1983)
• Bravoure (1984) (translated as Gothic Romance, 1990)
• Le Détroit de Behring (The Behring Strait) (1984) (German: Kleopatras Nase. Kleine Geschichte der Uchronie. Gatza, Berlin 1993.)
• La Moustache (1986) (translated as The Mustache, 1988)
• Hors d'atteinte (Out of Reach) (1988)
• 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). A somewhat fictionalized biography of Philip K. Dick.
• 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.
• L'Adversaire (2000) (The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception, translated by Linda Coverdale, 2002). A nonfictional account of the life of the murderer Jean-Claude Romand, after the author corresponded with the criminal in jail (1993), and watched his trial (1996). In 2002, L'Adversaire was adapted into the film of the same name by director Nicole Garcia.
• Un roman russe (2007) (My Life as a Russian Novel, translated by Linda Coverdale, 2011)
• D'autres vies que la mienne (2009) (Lives Other Than My Own, translated by Linda Coverdale, 2012)
• Limonov (2011), a biography of Eduard Limonov (Limonov: The Outrageous Adventures, translated by John Lambert, 2015)
• Le Royaume (2014) (The Kingdom: A Novel, translated by John Lambert, 2017)[12]
• Il est avantageux d'avoir où aller (2016) (97,196 Words: Essays, partial translation into English by John Lambert, 2019)
• Yoga (2020)

• 1996 : la Classe de Neige by Claude Miller, adapted from his book of the same name.
• 1999 : Angel, based on the novel by English writer Elizabeth Taylor.
• 2002 : L'Adversaire by Nicole Garcia and Daniel Auteuil, screenwriter.
• 2003 : Retour à Kotelnitch, director.
• 2005 : La Moustache, director and screenwriter, along with Emmanuelle Devos and Vincent Lindon.
• 2009 : I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive, story.
• 2011 : All Our Desires, adapted from his book Other Lives But Mine
• 2020 : Le Quai de Ouistreham, adopted from Florence Aubenas's book of the same name.

• Susannah Hunnewell (Fall 2013). "Emmanuel Carrère, The Art of Nonfiction No. 5". The Paris Review.
• Kai Nonnenmacher: "Unterwerfung als Konversion: Als-Ob-Bekehrungen zu Katholizismus und Islam bei Carrère und Houellebecq". In: Romanische Studien 3 (2016), 171-198 online.
• Emmanuel Carrère – Photos by Mathieu Bourgois.
• Emmanuel Carrère at IMDb