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Hubert Haddad

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Born in Tunis in 1947, Hubert Abraham Haddad followed his parents into exile in France several years later, first to Belleville, Ménilmontant, and then to the housing projects. His first collection of poems, Le Charnier déductif (Deductive Mass Grave), appeared in 1967. Starting with Un rêve de glace (Albin Michel, 1974; Zulma, 2005), he has continuously produced novels and collections of stories, alternating with essays on art or literature, plays, and collections of poems. After investigating the realm of the fantastic in a wild, hyper-realistic light, the author of L'Univers (The Universe), a dictionary novel (Zulma, 1999 / 2009) also ventured into the critical territory of history through myth and legend, notably with fictional investigation of contemporary myth: La Condition magique (The Magical Condition), SGDL's Grand Prix for the Novel, Zulma, 1998) or topical current events: Palestine, Zulma, 2007, Opium Poppy, Zulma, 2011, Corps désirable, Zulma, 2015. Haddad's use of different genres and subjects combined with his extensive experience with writing workshops led him to write Le Nouveau Magasin d'écriture (The New Writing Workhouse), Zulma, 2006, a sort of action encyclopedia of literature and the art of writing, including a number of new literary games in addition to reflections on books and authors. This volume was followed in 2007 by the Nouveau Nouveau Magasin d'écriture (The New New Writing Workhouse), devoted to the splendors of the imaginary world, with two hundred engravings selected for their evocative power. Hubert Haddad has received literary prizes for a number of his works, including the 1983 Georges Bernanos Prize for Les Effrois; the 1991 Maupassant Prize for Le Secret de l'immortalité; the 1998 SGDL (Société des gens de lettres/ Literary Society) Grand Prix for the Novel for La Condition magique; the 2008 Five Francophonie Continents Prize and the 2009 Prix Renaudot Poche for Palestine, the 2013 Prix Louis Guilloux and the 2014 Prix des littératures Océans France Ô for Le Peintre d'éventail.
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