- François Weyergans
François Weyergans (b.
2 August ,1941 ) is a Belgian ("French speaking") writer and director. He was born atEtterbeek inBrussels . His father,Franz Weyergans was a Belgian, and also a writer, while his mother was fromAvignon inFrance .Biography
He completed film studies at the
IDHEC (Hautes Études Cinématographiques), where he came to love the films ofBresson andGodard , among others. He soon began to write forCahiers du cinema and directed his first film in1961 , onMaurice Béjart .Novels
After having been through some
psychoanalysis , he published a satirical account of his treatment, a novel called "Le Pitre" (1971 ), which attracted some critical notice and won thePrix Roger Nimier . His second novel in1981 was "Macaire le Copte". This won thePrix Rossel in his nativeBelgium , as well as thePrix des Deux Magots inFrance . From then on, "Weyergans" devoted himself entirely to writing, spending whole nights working from eleven o’clock until the following noon. His subsequent works - mostly of an ironic autobiographical nature - also won literary prizes, including thePrix Méridien des quatre jurys in1983 for "Le radeau de la Méduse" thePrix Renaudot in1992 for "La démence du boxeur". Most recently, his "Trois jours chez ma mère" gained thePrix Goncourt in2005 . In this, he satirises his own famous difficulties in delivering a promised manuscript in time. In the process he creates a "Russian doll" type structure where he ("Weyergans") writes as a writer, "Weyergraf", who finds all sorts of distractions or reasons to avoid writing a book called "Trois jours chez ma mère". He does this largely by inventing an author called "Graffenberg", who in turn invents another author "Weyerstein" who sketches out a possible structure - but he keeps getting waylaid by (very funny) meditations on his own life, loves (or just encounters), family, films and multiple enthusiasms and interests.Films
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1962 : "Béjart" (documentaire)
*1963 : "Hieronymus Bosch" (court-métrage)
*1965 : "" (des portraits "Cinéastes de notre temps "), 65 minutes
*1967 : "Beaudelaire is gestorven in de zomer "
*1967 : "Aline"
*1972 : "Un film sur quelqu'un "
*1977 : "Maladie mortelle "
*1977 : "Je t'aime, tu danses "
*1978 : "Couleur Chair " (Flesh Color )External links
* [http://french.imdb.com/name/nm0923360/ His file] on
IMDb
* [http://www.evene.fr/celebre/biographie/francois-weyergans-6092.php Biography,complete bibliography and citations of François Weyergans, in French]
* [http://www.evene.fr/celebre/actualite/weyergans-trois-jours-chez-ma-mere-goncourt-241.php Interview with François Weyergans in French (Dec. 2005)]
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