Ludovic Janvier

{{Short description|French writer}}

{{for|the 1980s missing-persons case of the French child of the same name|Disappearance of Ludovic Janvier}}

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| birth_date = 24 October 1934

| birth_place = Paris, France

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| death_place = Ivry-sur-Seine, France

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| occupation = Novelist
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Ludovic Janvier (24 October 1934 in Paris – 18 January 2016 in Ivry-sur-Seine) was a French novelist, poet, essayist, and short-story writer. He was the grandson of Haitian writer and politician Louis-Joseph Janvier.

Work

= Novels =

  • 1968: La Baigneuse, Éditions Gallimard
  • 1974: Face, Gallimard
  • 1984: Naissance, Gallimard
  • 1988: Monstre, va, Gallimard
  • 2012: La Confession d'un bâtard du siècle, Fayard

= Short stories =

  • 1993: Brèves d’amour, Gallimard
  • 1996: En mémoire du lit, Brèves d'amour 2, Gallimard, Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle
  • 2002: Encore un coup au cœur, Brèves d'amour 3 (short stories), Gallimard
  • 2002: Tue-le, Gallimard
  • 2016: Apparitions, Brèves d'amour 4 (short stories), Gallimard

= Poetry =

  • 1987: La Mer à boire, Gallimard
  • 1992: Entre jour et sommeil, Seghers
  • 1998: Comme un œil, dessins de Jean-Marie Queneau, Vézelay, Éditions de la Goulotte
  • 2001: Doucement avec l'ange, Gallimard
  • 2003: Bon d'accord, allez je reste !, inventaire/invention
  • 2004: Des rivières plein la voix, Gallimard, {{ill|Prix Roger-Kowalski|fr}}
  • 2006: Une poignée de monde, Gallimard

= Essays =