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{{Short description|French novelist and translator (1957–2017)}}
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| birth_date = 11 February 1957
| birth_place = [[Nantes]], France
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| death_place = [[Paris]], France
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| alma mater = [[Cours Florent]]▼
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| occupation = Novelist, translator
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'''Alain Defossé''' (11 February 1957- – 14 May 2017) was a French novelist and translator.
 
==Early life==
Alain Defossé was born inon 11 February 1957 in [[Nantes]].<ref name="livreshebdoobitbnf">{{cite newsweb|last1url=Lacourhttp://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb121845803|first1title=CéciliaDefossé, Alain|titlewebsite=DécèsBibliothèque nationale de l’écrivainFrance|language=fr|accessdate=17 etMay traducteur2017}}</ref><ref Alainname="livreshebdoobit">{{cite Defossénews|url=http://www.livreshebdo.fr/article/deces-de-lecrivain-et-traducteur-alain-defosse|accessdatetitle=MayDécès 17,de l'écrivain et traducteur Alain Defossé|date=16 May 2017|work=Livres Hebdo|language=fr|last1=Lacour|first1=Cécilia|accessdate=17 May 2017}}</ref><ref name="presseoceanobit">{{cite news|url=http://www.presseocean.fr/actualite/necrologie-lecrivain-et-traducteur-alain-defosse-est-decede-15-05-2017-230107|title=Nécrologie L'écrivain et traducteur Alain Defossé est décédé|date=15 May 16,2017|work=Presse-Océan|language=fr|accessdate=17 May 2017}}</ref> HeEarly on, he was interested in music, jazz in particular, and also cinema, and he studied at the [[Cours Florent]] in Paris.<ref name="livreshebdoobit"/><ref name="lemonde">{{cite news |title=Alain Defosse |work=[[Le Monde]] |date=23 May 2017 |id={{ProQuest|1901189956}}}}</ref>
 
==Career==
Defossé authored nine novels. His first novel, '' Les fourmis d’Anversd'Anvers'', was published in 1991.<ref name="livreshebdoobit"/> He also translated several books from English into French.<ref name="livreshebdoobit"/> For example, he translated ''Crazy Cock'' by [[Henry Miller]] in 1990.<ref name="livreshebdoobit"/> He also translated ''[[American Psycho]]'' by [[Bret Easton Ellis]] in 1993.<ref name="livreshebdoobit"/> In 2006, he translated ''[[The Night Watch (Waters novel)|The Night Watch]]'' by [[Sarah WaltersWaters]].<ref name="livreshebdoobit"/> Two years later, in 2008, he translated ''[[Rant (novel)|Rant]]'' by [[Chuck Palahniuk]].<ref name="livreshebdoobit"/> Other novelists whose work he translated are [[Irvine Welsh]] and [[Joseph Connolly (author)|Joseph Connolly]].<ref name="presseoceanobit"/>
 
In his books ''L'Homme en habit'' [The Man in Clothes] and ''On ne tue pas les gens'' [We Don't Kill People], Defossé discusses his homosexuality, telling an interviewer in 2015: "my books are, generally speaking, made up of disparate elements that I have kept, consciously or not, in a secret drawer and which, at a certain moment, reappear and aggregate until they form a story and a book ... in my novels, there are also a lot of ghosts, which are certainly my ghosts, but which are also ghosts which belong only to themselves".<ref name="lemonde"/>
==Death== ▼
 
Defossé died in 2017.<ref name="livreshebdoobit"/>▼
▲==Death==
▲Defossé died inon 14 May 2017 in Paris.<ref name="livreshebdoobit"/><ref name="presseoceanobit"/>
 
==Novels==
*{{cite book|last1=Defossé|first1=Alain|author-mask1=1|title=Les fourmis d'Anvers|date=1991|publisher=Salvy|location=Paris|isbn=9782905899200|oclc=781205279}}
*{{cite book|last1=Defossé|first1=Alain|author-mask1=1|title=Retour à la ville|date=1996|publisher=Salvy|location=Paris}}
*{{cite book|last1=Defossé|first1=Alain|author-mask1=1|title=Dimanche au Mont Valérien|date=2000|publisher=Joca seria|location=Nantes|isbn=9782908929737|oclc=45647184}}
*{{cite book|last1=Defossé|first1=Alain|author-mask1=1|title=Dans la douceur du soir|date=2004|publisher=PARC|location=Paris|isbn=9782912010216|oclc=470117289}}
*{{cite book|last1=Defossé|first1=Alain|author-mask1=1|title=Chien de cendres|date=2006|publisher=Éditions du Panama|location=Paris|isbn=9782755701234|oclc=470515837}}
*{{cite book|last1=Defosse|first1=Alain|author-mask1=1|title=L'Homme en habit|date=2007|publisher=Éditions du Rocher|location=Monaco}}
*{{cite book|last1=Defosse|first1=Alain|author-mask1=1|title=Mes inconnues : Solange, Denise, Mado|date=2011|publisher=Phébus|location=Paris|isbn=9782752904942|oclc=697265036}}
*{{cite book|last1=Defosse|first1=Alain|author-mask1=1|title=On ne tue pas les gens|date=2012|publisher=Flammarion|location=Paris|isbn=9782081255852|oclc=785327115}}
*{{cite book|last1=Defosse|first1=Alain|author-mask1=1|title=Effraction|date=2015|publisher=Fayard|location=Paris|isbn=9782213687025|oclc=976502106}}
 
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[[Category:PeopleWriters from Nantes]]
[[Category:Writers from Paris]]
[[Category:French male novelists]]
[[Category:20th-century French novelists]]
[[Category:21st-century French novelists]]
[[Category:20th-century French translators]]
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[[Category:English–French translators]]
[[Category:20th-century French male writers]]
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