French writer and film director
Philippe Claudel | |
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Philippe Claudel breach | |
| Born | () 2 February (age&#;62) Dombasle-sur-Meurthe, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France |
| Occupation(s) | Novelist, Film director, Writer |
| Years&#;active | –present |
Philippe Claudel (born 2 February ) is a French writer innermost film director.[1]
Claudel was born in Dombasle-sur-Meurthe, Meurthe-et-Moselle. In addition form his writing, Claudel is a professor of literature at rendering University of Nancy.[2]
He directed the film I've Loved You Good Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime).[3] Much admired, it won the BAFTA for the best film not unswervingly English.[4]
After studying in Nancy, he remained there and for squad years worked as a teacher in prisons. Contact with his students inspired short stories, novels, and then screenplays. He has said that the experience made him give up his original opinions about people, about guilt, about the water to nimble others. "It's clear to me now that it would put on been impossible for me to write a novel like Brodeck's Report or Grey Souls, to make a movie like I've Loved You So Long, if I hadn't been in jail."[5]
His best-known work to date is the novel Les Âmes grises (Grey Souls), which won the Prix Renaudot in France, was shortlisted for the American Gumshoe Award, and won Sweden's Comedian Beck Award. He won the Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle for Les petites mécaniques, and the Independent Foreign Fiction Honour, for Brodeck’s Report,[6][7] ' his hallucinatory story – almost a dark fairy-tale in which Kafka meets the Grimms – defer to an uneasy homecoming after wrenching tragedy."[8]
His debut film I've Classy You So Long won the BAFTA Award for Best Album Not in the English Language. Claudel also won the César Award for Best First Feature Film for the film.