Érik Orsenna

Érik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult (born March 22, 1947 in Paris), a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris ("Sciences Po"), Orsenna specialized in ecoomics at the London School of Economics. He was a close collaborator of François Mitterrand and held several government positions in the 1980s and 1990s. He is a member (currently on leave) of the Conseil d'État, having been appointed in 1985. He was elected to the Académie française on May 28, 1998.For "Voyage au pays du coton" he received the second prize of the Lettre Ulysses Award in 2006.

Bibliography

*1973 "Loyola’s blues" (Le Seuil)
*1977 "La Vie comme à Lausanne" (Le Seuil)
*1977 "Espace national et déséquilibre monétaire", under his real name Érik Arnoult (PUF)
*1980 "Une comédie française" (Le Seuil)
*1988 "L’Exposition coloniale" (Le Seuil)
*1992 "Besoin d’Afrique", in collaboration with Éric Fottorino and Christophe Guillemin (Fayard)
*1993 "Grand amour" (Le Seuil)
*1996 "Histoire du monde en neuf guitares", with Thierry Arnoult (Le Seuil)
*1996 "Mésaventures du Paradis, mélodie cubaine", in collaboration with Bernard Matussière (Le Seuil)
*1997 "Deux étés" (Fayard)
*1998 "Longtemps" (Fayard)
*2000 "Portrait d'un homme heureux : André Le Nôtre" (Fayard)
*2001 "La grammaire est une chanson douce" (Stock)
*2003 "Madame Bâ" (Fayard)
*2004 "Les Chevaliers du subjonctif" (Stock)
*2005 "Portrait du Gulf Stream" (Le Seuil)
*2006 "Voyage au pays du coton" (Fayard)

External links

* [http://www.academie-francaise.fr/immortels/index.html L'Académie française]