Pierre Senges

Pierre Senges (born 1968, Romans-sur-Isère) is a French writer. His work includes fifteen books, often collaborations with illustrators, and over twenty-five plays for radio.

His books are sometimes noted for having a baroque style. They frequently combine erudition and invention (Fragments of Lichtenberg) or play with the relation between the true and untrue (Veuves au maquillage and La réfutation majeure).

Senges' radio plays (fictions radiophoniques) have been produced by France Culture and France Inter. His many prizes include the Prix Wepler, the Prix SACD Nouveau Talent Radio in 2007, the Grand prix de la fiction radiophonique de la SGDL in 2008, the Prix du deuxième roman, the Prix Rhône-Alpes, and the Prix meilleure page 111.

Works

Books

• Veuves au maquillage, Éditions Verticales, 2000 ; Points Seuil. Prix Rhône-Alpes
• Essais fragiles d’aplomb (essai), Verticales, coll. Minimales, 2002
• Ruines-de-Rome, Verticales, 2002 ; Points Seuil. Prix du deuxième roman 2003
• La réfutation majeure : version française, d'après Réfutatio major, attribué à Antonio de Guevara (1480-1548), Verticales, 2004, (Gallimard, Folio 4647, 2007)
  • The Major Refutation: English version of Refutatio major, attributed to Antonio de Guevara (1480–1545), translated by Jacob Siefring, Contra Mundum Press, Dec 2016
• Géométrie dans la poussière, illustrations by Patrice Killoffer, Verticales, 2004
  • Geometry in the Dust, illustrations by Patrice Killoffer, translated by Jacob Siefring, Inside the Castle, Apr 2019
• L’idiot et les hommes de paroles (essai), Bayard, 2005
• Sort l'assassin, entre le spectre, Verticales, 2006
• Fragments de Lichtenberg, Verticales, 2008
  • Fragments of Lichtenberg, translated by Gregory Flanders, Dalkey Archive Press, Jan 2017
• Les carnets de Gordon McGuffin, illustrated by Nicolas de Crécy, Futuropolis, 2008.
• Les aventures de Percival : un conte phylogénétique, illustrated by Nicolas de Crécy, Dis voir, 2009
  • The Adventures of Percival: A Phylogenetic Tale, translated by Paul Buck and Catherine Petit, Dis voir, 2009
• Etudes de silhouettes, Verticales, March 2010
• Proxima du Centaure (Radio fiction pamphlet), Lansman, March 2010
• Environs et mesures, Gallimard, « Le Cabinet des lettrés », April 2011
• Zoophile contant fleurette, Cadex, April 2012
• Achab (séquelles), Verticales, August 2015
• Cendres des hommes et des bulletins, illustrated by Sergio Aquindo, Le Tripode, September 2016