Francis Marmande

Francis Marmande (born 1945) is a French author, musician and journalist for the French newspaper Le Monde since 1977. Marmande currently serves as the director of a modern literature laboratory (Littérature au présent) at University of Paris VII: Denis Diderot.[1]

Marmande graduated in 1966 from the École Normale Supérieure in Saint-Cloud. A jazz critic, Marmande also plays double bass and has recorded with the Jac Berrocal Group.[2] He was a contributor to Jazz Magazine from 1971 to 2000, which he also helped illustrate from 1976 to 1994.

Since 2006, he has had a regular column in Le Monde, writing on topics such as jazz, bullfighting, and literature.

Bibliography
  • Bataille politique, Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 1985.
  • L’Indifférence des ruines, Parenthèses, 1985.
  • La Mémoire du chien, Fourbis, 1993.
  • Œillet rouge sur le sable, avec Florence Delay, Fourbis, 1994.
  • La Perfection du bonheur, Descartes & Cie, 1994 ISBN 2-910301-07-9
  • Le Chemin des dames, Fourbis, 1995.
  • La Housse partie, Fourbis, 1997.
  • La Chambre d’amour, éditions du Scorff, 1997.
  • Suzanne un jour, avec Rodrigo de Zayas, Esprit des péninsules, 1999.
  • Chutes libres, Farrago, 2000.
  • La Police des caractères, Descartes & Cie, 2001.
  • Curro, Romero, y Curro Romero, Verdier, 2001 ISBN 2-86432-339-7
  • À partir du lapin, Verdier, 2002 ISBN 2-86432-359-1
  • Rocío, Verdier, 2003 ISBN 2-86432-393-1

References
  1. Directory entry at University Denis Diderot (in French)
  2. CD The Night Knows. - IS 040


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