Claude Durand
French publisher, translator and writer
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Claude Durand (1938–2015) was a French publisher, translator and writer. He worked in the French film industry editing films, and occasionally writing and directing.
He published leading authors such as Solzhenitsyn and Houellebecq , and together with his wife Carmen, he translated the standard French edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez 's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude . As a writer, he won the 1979 Prix Médicis for his novel La Nuit zoologique . [1]
As Solzhenitsyn's literary agent (Editions Fayard) since 2003 he acted as an intermediary with "Moscow" when Edward Ericson Jr. and Daniel Mahoney were preparing The Solzhenitsyn Reader . [2] A substantial part of the notes (remarks) on the Journal of the Red Wheel are of his hand. [3]
Selected filmography
- Anyone Can Kill Me (1957)
- Nathalie, Secret Agent (1959)
Publications
- Agent de Soljenitsyne ( Fayard , Paris 2011).
References
- ↑ "Claude Durand : la mort d'un grand éditeur" . Bibliobs .
- ↑ ISI Books, Wilmington, DE 2006, p. xiii.
- ↑ Alexandre Soljénitsyne, Journal de la Roue Rouge (Fayard, Paris 2018), p. 10.
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