Francis Marmande

Francis Marmande (born 1945) is a French author, musician and journalist for the French newspaper Le Monde since 1977. Marmande currently serves as the director of a modern literature laboratory (Littérature au présent) at University of Paris VII: Denis Diderot.^[1]

Marmande graduated in 1966 from the École Normale Supérieure in Saint-Cloud. A jazz critic, Marmande also plays double bass and has recorded with the Jac Berrocal Group.^[2] He was a contributor to Jazz Magazine from 1971 to 2000, which he also helped illustrate from 1976 to 1994.

Since 2006, he has had a regular column in Le Monde, writing on topics such as jazz, bullfighting, and literature.

Bibliography

• Bataille politique, Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 1985.
• L’Indifférence des ruines, Parenthèses, 1985.
• La Mémoire du chien, Fourbis, 1993.
• Œillet rouge sur le sable, avec Florence Delay, Fourbis, 1994.
• La Perfection du bonheur, Descartes & Cie, 1994 ISBN 2-910301-07-9
• Le Chemin des dames, Fourbis, 1995.
• La Housse partie, Fourbis, 1997.
• La Chambre d’amour, éditions du Scorff, 1997.
• Suzanne un jour, avec Rodrigo de Zayas, Esprit des péninsules, 1999.
• Chutes libres, Farrago, 2000.
• La Police des caractères, Descartes & Cie, 2001.
• Curro, Romero, y Curro Romero, Verdier, 2001 ISBN 2-86432-339-7
• À partir du lapin, Verdier, 2002 ISBN 2-86432-359-1
• Rocío, Verdier, 2003 ISBN 2-86432-393-1

References

1. Directory entry at University Denis Diderot (in French)
2. CD The Night Knows. - IS 040

External links

• Francis Marmande profile via Le Monde diplomatique