Walls and Bridges
Walls and Bridges is a 10-day series of performances and critical explorations uniting French and American thinkers and artists from social sciences, philosophy, literature and live arts.
Frédéric Boyer
Frédéric Boyer © Hélène Bamberger
WRITER - TRANSLATOR - PUBLISHER
France
Biography
Frédéric Boyer was born March 2, 1961 in Cannes. A graduate of the Ecole normale supérieure, Boyer is a writer, translator, and publisher. He has written roughly thirty books since 1991 and all—novels, essays, poems and translations—have been published by P.O.L. He was awarded the 1993 Prix du Livre inter by the radio station France Inter for his novel Des choses idiotes et douces, and the Jules Janin Prize by the Académie française for his new translation of the Confessions of Saint Augustine (Les Aveux, P.O.L 2008).
He directed a new translation of the Bible on which numerous contemporary authors worked (Olivier Cadiot, Jean Echenoz, Florence Delay, Jacques Roubaud, Valère Novarinae, etc.) and which was published in 2001 (Bayard).
For many years Boyer’s work has combined personal writing and the rereading and translation of great classic and ancient texts.
In 2010, his new translation of Shakespeare’s Richard II (P.O.L, 2010) was produced by Jean-Baptiste Sastre with Denis Podalydès in the lead role, in the Cour d’honneur of the Palais des papes at the Avignon festival—where Boyer made his acting debut.
In 2012, his first play, Phèdre les oiseaux (P.O.L, 2012), was created at the Lorient Theater and the Châteauvallon Center for Dramatic Arts and starred Hiam Abbass.
