Jean-Luc Seigle (1956 – 5 March 2020) was a French contemporary dramatist, screenwriter and writer.

Biography

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In January 2015 is published his book Je vous écris dans le noir which is devoted to Pauline Dubuisson [fr] at the center of a criminal case of the 1950s. Fabienne Pascaud, in the magazine Télérama writes:

Jean-Luc Seigle chose to make out of the sombre fact a fascinating narrative in the first person and slips masterfully into the skin of his heroine

and that he

knows how to express the feminine with a troubling empathy."[1]

Novels

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  • 2001: La Nuit dépeuplée, Paris, Flammarion, ISBN 978-2259194464
  • 2004: Le Sacre de l'enfant mort, Flammarion, ISBN 978-2259199957:
  • 2006: Laura ou l'Énigme des vingt-deux lames, Paris, M. Lafon, ISBN 978-2749904757
  • 2012: En vieillissant les hommes pleurent, Flammarion, ISBN 9782081257610
Grand prix RTL-Lire 2012.[2] - Prix Octave Mirbeau 2013.

Scripts

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for cinema
for television (partial list)

As well as twenty others in collaboration.

Theatre

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  • 1981: Le Songe, Festival du Marais
  • 1983: L'Absent, Théâtre Marie Stuart
  • 1990: Marie Ignota, Théâtre Ouvert
  • 2008: La Gouvernante de Sigmaringen
  • 2009: La Dernière Nuit de Mona Parker
  • 2011: Médée et le Truc en plume
  • 2012: Excusez-moi pour la poussière

References

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