Jean Echenoz (26 December 1947) is a French novelist.
He studied sociology and engineering in Rodez, Digne-les-Bains, Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille and Paris. He worked briefly at the newspaper L’Humanité. In 1975, he attended a course at the École pratique des hautes études et des enseignements, at the Sorbonne
Awards
- 1979 : Prix Fénéon for Le Méridien de Greenwich
- 1983 : Prix Médicis for Cherokee
- 1999 : Prix Goncourt for Je m’en vais
- 2006 : Grand prix de littérature Paul-Morand
- 2016 : Prix de la Bibliothèque nationale de France
Books
- Le Méridien de Greenwich (Minuit, 1979)
- Cherokee (Minuit, 1983) (Godine, 1987)
- L’Équipée malaise (Minuit, 1986) Double Jeopardy (Godine, 1993)
- L’Occupation des sols (Minuit, 1988)
- Lac (Minuit, 1989) Chopin’s Move (Dalkey Archive, 2004)
- “Ayez des amis”, p. 49-70 in “New Smyrna Beach, Semaines de Suzanne” (Minuit, 1991)
- “J’arrive” in Le serpent à plumes, no. 3, 1992
- Nous trois (Minuit, 1992)
- Les Grandes Blondes (Minuit, 1995) Big Blondes (The New Press, 1997)
- Un an (Minuit, 1997)
- Je m’en vais (FR 1999) US: I’m Gone (The New Press, 2001); UK: I’m Off (Harvill, 2001)
- Jérôme Lindon (Minuit, 2001)
- Au piano (Minuit, 2003) Piano (The New Press, 2004)
- Ravel (Minuit, 2006) (The New Press, 2007)
- Courir (Minuit, 2008) Running (The New Press, 2009)
- Des éclairs (Minuit, 2010) Lightning (The New Press, 2011)
- 14 (Minuit, 2012) (1914: a novel – The New Press, 2014)
- Caprice de la reine, recueil de nouvelles, Minuit, 2014
- Envoyée spéciale, Minuit, 2016
