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Karine Tuil

Karine Tuil (born 3 May 1972 in Paris) is a French novelist who has written several award-winning novels in French and English. Her works have themes ranging from marriage and Jewish identity to detention centers and corporate politics.

Tuil in 2019

Background

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Tuil was born in Paris on 3 May 1972. After obtaining her baccalaureate, she studied law, and received a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Communication Law at the University of Paris II (Panthéon Assas).[1] Tuil was practicing as a lawyer but prepared a thesis she did not defend. She then decided to devote herself to writing.

Career

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Tuil's first published novel, Pour le Pire, was noticed by Jean-Marie Rouart.[2] It was published in September 2000 by Plon publishing house. The novel describes the slow decomposition of a couple. Her second novel, Forbidden, (Plon 2001) – a satirical account of the identity crisis of an old Jew – was selected for the prize Goncourt Prize and the Wizo Prize. It is translated in several languages and was adapted to the theater by Salomé Lelouch in 2014 under the title The marriage of Mr Wessmann.[3][4]

Female Sex, published in 2002 is a comedy about mother-daughter relationships. This third novel concludes her trilogy on the Jewish family. In 2003, she published Tout sur mon frère, (Éditions Grasset), which explores the negative effects of autofiction. It was nominated for the Booksellers' Prize and was a finalist for the France-Television Award.

In 2005, Tuil published When I Was Funny, which is a French comedy set in New York. In 2007, Douce France appeared, a social novel about administrative detention centers.

In 2008, Tuil released Domination. It is about power politics in the publishing world through the prisms of identity. Domination was a first selections for the Goncourt prize, the Goncourt high school prize and the Flore prize. Tuil she received the Stendhal Scholarship from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for this novel.

In 2010, her novel Six Months, Six Days was a first and second selection of the 2010 Goncourt Prize, the first selection of the Interallié Prize and the Goncourt high school students' prize. In 2011, she won the prix littéraire du Roman News.[5]

Tuil's ninth novel entitled L'Invention de nos vies[6][7][8] was published in September 2013 by the Grasset publishing house. This novel looks at "the story of a young man of Arab descent, Samir, who, to succeed in his career as a business lawyer in New York," borrows "part of the identity of his best childhood friend, a Jew named Samuel[9] " . The novel appeared in several selections of literary prizes, including the Femina, Interallié, Goncourt, Goncourt high school students, and the prix des libraires. It was a finalist of the Goncourt Prize.[10] L'Invention de nos vies was translated in several countries including Great Britain, the United States (under the title The age of reinvention[11][12]), Canada,[13] Italy,[14][15] China, Greece, the Netherlands,[16] and Germany.[17]

Tuil's novel The Insouciance was published in 2016. On the publication of this tenth novel, the newspaper Le Monde in 2016 writes, on all her books: "Some themes are obvious. For example the Jewishness of the characters. And subsequently: the father, the law, the Kafkaesque humor - Insouciance adds in the author's Letter to the father".[18] The novel won the Landerneau Prize for readers.

Awards and distinctions

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Works

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  • 2000 : Pour le pire (Plon, Pocket 11352) (ISBN 2-259-19294-7)
  • 2001 : Interdit (Plon, Pocket 11613, Grasset 2010, Paperback) (ISBN 2-259-19520-2)
  • 2002 : Du sexe féminin (Plon, Pocket 11941, Pocket Book) (ISBN 2-259-19708-6)
  • 2003 : Tout sur mon frère (Grasset, Paperback 30276) (ISBN 2-246-65401-7)
  • 2005 : Quand j'étais drôle (Grasset, Livre de Poche) (ISBN 2-246-65411-4)
  • 2007 : Douce France (Grasset, Paperback) (ISBN 2246709911)
  • 2008 : La Domination (Grasset, Paperback) (ISBN 2246739217)
  • 2010 : Six mois, six jours (Grasset, Livre de Poche) (ISBN 978-2246758310)
  • 2013 : L'Invention de nos vies (Grasset, Livre de Poche) (ISBN 978-2-246-80752-0) (translated into English as The Age of Reinvention in 2015)
  • 2016 : L'Insouciance (Gallimard) (ISBN 978-2-070-14619-2)
  • 2019 : Les Choses humaines (Gallimard) (ISBN 978-2-07-272933-1)
  • 2022 : La décision (Gallimard) (ISBN 978-2-07-294354-6)
Participation
  • 2017: Collective, Qu'est-ce que la gauche?, Fayard

Adaptations of her work

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  • 2014–2015: The Wedding of Mr Wessmann, based on the work Forbidden, adaptation of Salomé Lelouch,[3][4] theater La Bruyère[22] from October 2014 to June 2015; Avignon Festival in July 2015.
  • 2021: The Accusation, based on her 2019 novel Les Choses humaines, adapted by Yvan Attal and Yaël Langmann.[23]

References

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  1. ^ "Auteurs français contemporains (S à Z) - aLaLettre". www.alalettre.com. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  2. ^ "Karine Tuil : "Un livre doit être dangereux"". Profondeur de champs (in French). 17 May 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Le Mariage de M. Weissmann - Spectacles dans le Grand Paris". Télérama.fr (in French). Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  4. ^ a b "Dans la veine de Woody Allen". leparisien.fr (in French). 14 December 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  5. ^ "Six mois, six jours, de Karine Tuil". FIGARO (in French). 26 August 2011. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  6. ^ ""L'Invention de nos vies" par Karine Tuil, terriblement efficace". RFI (in French). 23 December 2013. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  7. ^ Cocquet, Marion (4 August 2013). "Rentrée littéraire 2013 - Karine Tuil ou les grandes espérances". Le Point (in French). Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  8. ^ "D'une identité à l'autre, Karine Tuil". Le Huffington Post (in French). 28 August 2013. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  9. ^ "Karine Tuil : sexe, mensonges et trahisons". FIGARO (in French). 29 August 2013. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  10. ^ "VIDÉOS. Goncourt 2013: les quatre finalistes dévoilés". Le Huffington Post (in French). 29 October 2013. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  11. ^ Charles, Ron (23 November 2015). "'The Age of Reinvention' review: A novel of Islamophobia and deception". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  12. ^ Memmott, Carol. "French novel 'The Age of Reinvention' spotlights the pitfalls of Islamophobia". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  13. ^ "Karine Tuil's timely novel explores being a Muslim Arab in France | The Star". thestar.com. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  14. ^ "L'invenzione della vita". ufficiostampa.sperling.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 4 December 2017. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  15. ^ "La nuova vita di Samuel piena di bugie - la Repubblica.it". Archivio - la Repubblica.it (in Italian). Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  16. ^ "Athenaeum Boekhandel | Een verzonnen leven". Athenaeum Boekhandel (in Dutch). Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  17. ^ Buß, Christian (20 August 2014). "Aufsteigerroman "Die Gierigen": Das System ist böse? Ich bin böser!". Spiegel Online. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  18. ^ "Karine Tuil, voix singulière du roman français". Le Monde.fr (in French). Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  19. ^ lalettre (15 October 2013). "la Forêt des Livres 2013 Les Lauriers Verts". www.lalettredulibraire.com (in French). Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  20. ^ "Karine Tuil lauréate du Prix Landerneau des Lecteurs 2016" (in French). Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  21. ^ "Karine Tuil lauréate du Prix Landerneau des Lecteurs 2016" (in French). Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  22. ^ "Théâtre La Bruyère » – Le Mariage de M. Weissmann". www.theatrelabruyere.com. Archived from the original on 10 June 2017. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  23. ^ "Les Choses Humaines : Yvan Attal tourne un film sur le consentement". Orange / Cinéday. 12 August 2020. Retrieved 15 February 2023.
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