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Paris, Île-de-France, France
Age
57 years
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Jérôme Ferrari is a French writer and translator born in 1968 in Paris. He won the 2012 Prix Goncourt for his novel Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome ("The Sermon on the Fall of Rome").
Ferrari has lived in Corsica and taught philosophy at the lycée international Alexandre-Dumas in Algiers for several years, then at the Lycée Fesch of Ajaccio.
Currently, he is professor of philosophy at the French School of Abu Dhabi.
One work has been translated into English, Where I Left My Soul (2012), it "is set in the mid-1950s during the Algerian war, looking backwards to the second world war and the French defeat in Indochina, and forwards to the collapse in 1958 of the Fourth Republic."
Works
- 2015 Le Principe
- 2012 Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome (English translation: The Sermon on the Fall of Rome, 2014)
- 2010 Où j'ai laissé mon âme (English translation: Where I Left My Soul, 2012)
- 2009 Un dieu un animal
- 2008 Balco Atlantico
- 2007 Dans le secret
- 2002 Aleph zéro
Awards and honors
- 2012 Prix Goncourt, Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome
- 2010 Grand Prix Poncetton, Où j'ai laissé mon âme
- 2010 Prix Roman France Télévisions, Où j'ai laissé mon âme
- 2009 Prix Landerneau, Un dieu un animal
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