Alice Zeniter Explained

Alice Zeniter
Birth Place:	Clamart, France
Alma Mater:	École Normale Supérieure
Years Active:	2003–present

Alice Zeniter (born 1986) is a French novelist, translator, scriptwriter, dramatist and director.

She has won a Prix Renaudot young adult award for her third novel, Juste avant l'Oubli, and a Prix Goncourt young adult for her fourth novel, L'Art de Perdre.

Zeniter published her first novel, Deux moins un égal zéro, at the age of 16. Her second novel, Jusque dans nos bras, was published in 2010 and translated into English as Take This Man.

Her novel, L'Art de Perdre, won multiple prizes and awards.^[1] It was published in English in 2021 as The Art of Losing,^{[2] [3]} for which she won the International Dublin Literary Award along with its translator Frank Wynne.^[4]

Early life

Zeniter was born in Clamart, to an Algerian father and a French mother. She was raised in Champfleur and lived there until she was 17. She continued her studies in Alençon. From 2006 until 2011 she was a student at École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

Works

Works in English

• Take this man, New York: Europa, 2012.,
• The Art of Losing, (translated by Frank Wynne) London: Picador (imprint), 2021; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021 .

Novels

• Deux moins un égal zéro, Nantes, France, Éditions du Petit Véhicule, coll. « Plaine Page », 2003, 112 p.
• Jusque dans nos bras, Paris, Albin Michel, 2010, 236 p.
  • Prix littéraire de la Porte Dorée 2010
  • Prix littéraire Laurence Trân 2011
• Sombre Dimanche, Paris, éditions Albin Michel, 2013, 236 p.
  • Prix de la Closerie des Lilas 2013
  • Prix du Livre Inter 2013
  • Prix des lecteurs de l'Express 2013
• Juste avant l'Oubli, Editions Flammarion, 2015, https://www.babelio.com/livres/Zeniter-Juste-avant-loubli/725023
  • Prix Renaudot des lycéens 2015
• L'Art de Perdre, Éditions Flammarion, 2017., ^[5]
  • Prix Goncourt des lycéens 2017
  • Prix littéraire du Monde 2017
  • Prix Landerneau des lecteurs 2017
  • Prix des libraires de Nancy
  • Prix Liste Goncourt : le choix polonais, Cracovie, 2017
  • Prix Liste Goncourt : le choix de la Suisse 2017
  • Finaliste Prix Goncourt 2017
• Comme un empire dans un empire, Éditions Flammarion, 2020.,

Theatre

• Spécimens humains avec monstres, 2011
• Hansel et Gretel, Editions Acte Sud, 2018

Translation

• I love Dick, Chris Kraus, Editions Flammarion, 2016

Filmography

• Fever, 2014

Notes and References

1. Web site: Meeting with Alice Zeniter. OpenAgenda. en. 2018-11-08.
2. Web site: The Art of Losing by Alice Zeniter. 2021-02-06. www.panmacmillan.com. en.
3. Web site: The Art of Losing (Review). 2021-02-06. www.publishersweekly.com.
4. News: Crowley . Sinéad . French author Alice Zeniter wins 2022 Dublin Literary Award . 23 May 2022 . RTÉ News . 23 May 2022.
5. News: Entretien avec Alice Zeniter : "Enfant, j'ignorais pourquoi on n'allait pas en Algérie". Libération.fr. 2018-11-08. fr.