Alban Lefranc
From 20 February to 11 April 2018

Born in 1975, Alban Lefranc is a novelist, a playwright and also translate from German. He reinvented the lives of Nico (Vous n’étiez pas là, Verticales, 2009), Fassbinder (Fassbinder, la mort en fanfare,Rivages, 2012), Mohamed Ali (Le ring invisible, Verticales, 2013), Bernward Vesper and Andreas Baader (Si les bouches se ferment,Verticales, 2014), Maurice Pialat (L’amour la gueule ouverte, hypothèses sur Maurice Pialat, Helium/Actes Sud, 2015). His books were translated to German (Angriffe, Blumenbar, 2008) and to Italian (Il ring invisibile, 66thand2nd, 2013). He also writes for the radio and for the theater (Steve Jobs, directed by Robert Cantarella) and his play Table rase will be published in January 2018 by Quartett publishing house. Many of his novels are being adapted for the stage. He translated four novels from German into French, especially two novels by Peter Weiss. In the year 2000 he founded the magazine La mer gelée, published since 2015 by Le nouvel Attila.