Jean Echenoz

Jean Echenoz is the kind of writer I find genuinely thrilling: a Frenchman from Arras who has collected the Médicis, the Décembre, and the Goncourt across decades, which tells you he never rode a trend but kept refining a voice for a lifetime. Sustained prize-winning like that is the mark of a craftsman, not a flash in the pan. I am also drawn to the fact that he works as a translator, because that intimacy with moving language across borders surely sharpens the precision of his own prose. He is a quietly formidable talent, and those are exactly the authors I cherish most.

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Name (English)

Jean Echenoz

Name (Japanese)

ジャン・エシュノーズ

Reading

じゃん・えしゅのーず

Born

December 26, 1947 (age 78)

Origin

Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France

Occupation

translator / novelist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Boar

Awards & achievements

• 1980 Fénéon Prize for literature
• 1983 Prix Médicis
• 1995 Prix Décembre
• 1999 Prix Goncourt
• 2006 Grand prix de littérature Paul-Morand
• 2006 Prix Littéraire Livres & Musiques de Deauville
• 2016 The prize of the BNF

Filmography / notable works

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Echenoz
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A8%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%8E%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q353882

Tags

• Pas-de-Calais
• translator
• novelist

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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