Guillaume de Sardes

Guillaume de Sardes, is a writer, a photographer, an historian of art and a French curator. He was born on 14 April 1979. As a literary critic, he collaborates with magazines like Commentaire [fr], Edwarda, and literary newspapers like Service littéraire [fr]. He is the editor of Prussian Blue (magazine) [fr] (art magazine).

His first novel, Giovanni Pico, published in 2007, is devoted to the humanist Jean Pic de la Mirandole. He makes of him a Nietzschean figure and develops a really classic and light style. He obtained the Prix Ulysse for this work.

La Dernière passion de Son Éminence (2008), is an ironic and light novel. It was inspired by a real news story, on which the lawyer Jacques Vergès worked: a triple murder that took place in the Vatican in 1998. Action is however transposed in 1939. By its tone and its construction (using the process of entrenchment stories), La dernière passion de Son Éminence recallslibertine novels of the eighteenth century. Son éminence en rose et blanc (2011) uses the same characters (includingCardinal Benvenuto, cocaine addict and debauched old esthete). The plot is pure fantasy this time, although the context of the Vatican and fascist Italy is always really worked. Released in 2009, Le Nil est froid (Prix Bourgogne de littérature, Prix François-Mauriac de l'Académie française) exploresthe themes of war, obsessions and of artistic creation. It has for backdrop, the Egyptian Campaign. Latest novel to date, Le Dédain explores the different ways of loving in contemporary Paris.

Novels

• Giovanni Pico, Paris, Hermann, 2007
• La Dernière passion de Son Éminence, Paris, Hermann, 2008
• Le Nil est froid, Paris, Hermann, 2009
• Son Éminence en rose-et-blanc, Paris, Grasset, 2011
• Le Dédain, Paris, Grasset, 2012 [1]

Essays

• Nijinski, sa vie, son geste, sa pensée, Paris Hermann, 2006.[2]

Editing and text translation

• Memoirs of Serge Diaghilev [3]

Photobooks

• "New territories", with Nicolas Comment, Ola Rindal, Henry Roy, presentation by Dominique Baqué, Paris, 2014

• Paris-Tokyo aller-retour (collective exhibit), 2015, Paris, Maison de la culture du Japon.
• "Vie secrètes", 2015, Tirana, TULLA culture center.
• Possession immédiate (collective exhibit), 2015, Paris, galerie 24B.
• MTAG goupshow (collective exhibit), 2014, Paris, More Than A Gallery.
• "Vies secrètes", 2014, Paris, Myriam Bouagal Gallery [4]
• New territories, 2014, Beyrouth, Gathering/Institut français.