Frédéric-Yves Jeannet

Frédéric-Yves Jeannet is a writer and professor of French origin who emigrated to Mexico in his youth. He was born in Grenoble, France, in 1959 and left it in 1975. He then lived in London until 1977, before moving to Mexico. He published his first book, "Si loin de nulle part" in 1985, took up Mexican citizenship in 1987 and has since published books in both Spanish and French, among which "Pensar la muerte" and "La luz del mundo" in 1996, "Cyclone" (1997), "Charité" (2000) and "Recouvrance" (2007). He has also published book-length interviews with writers Michel Butor (1990), Annie Ernaux (2003), Helene Cixous (2005) and Robert Guyon (2006).Jeannet lived and lectured in New York from 1996 to 2004, and in Wellington, New Zealand, from 2005 to 2008. He currently lives in Cuernavaca, Mexico.