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Patrick Deville (born 14 December 1957) is a French writer.
Life
After studying comparative literature and philosophy at the University of Nantes, Patrick Deville lived in the 1980s in the Middle East, in Nigeria, in Algeria.
In the 1990s, he regularly visited Cuba in Uruguay, Central America.
He created in 1996, the "price of the young Latin American literature" and review Meet, the House foreign writers and translators of Saint-Nazaire , which is now the literary editor.
In 2011, the magazine's editors Lire selects Kampuchea best French novel of the year.
In 2012, his novel Plague and Cholera (life of the bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin) is one of the most prominent of the literary season, retained in almost all French prize finalists and receives the Fnac prize for the novel, and the Prix Femina.[1][2]
His books have been translated into a dozen languages.
Works
Longue Vue, Editions de Minuit 1987 (Cordon-bleu)
Le Feu d'artifice, Editions de Minuit 1992 (The Fireworks)
La Femme parfaite,, Editions de Minuit 1995 (The perfect woman)
Ces deux-là, Editions de Minuit, 2000 (These two)
Pura vida, Seuil, 2004 (Pura vida)
La Tentation des armes à feu, Seuil, 2006 (The Temptation of firearms)
Equatoria, Seuil, 2009
Kampuchea, Seuil, 2011
Vie et mort sainte Tina l'exilée, editions publie.net, 2011 (Life and holy death in exile Tina)
Peste et Choléra, Seuil, 2012 (Plague and Cholera)
