Yann Apperry (born 1972) is a French novelist, librettist, screenwriter, and translator. He is a recipient of the Prix Médicis, the Prix Goncourt des lycéens and the Writer's Fellowship of the Fondation Hachette. A former resident of the French Academy at Rome, he was also a resident of Villa Kujoyama and Randell Cottage in Wellington, New Zealand. He is one of the founders of Groupe Ouest and Abalone Productions. He has been performing since 2006 with Claude Barthélemy in the musical duo Bruit Blanc.
Publications Novels 1997: Qui Vive, Éditions de Minuit 1999: Paradoxe du ciel nocturne, Éditions Grasset 2000: Diabolus in Musica, Grasset 2003: Farrago, Grasset 2008: Terre sans maître, Grasset
Theatre 2003: Les Hommes sans aveu, Actes Sud
Youth literature 2009: L'Île aux histoires, with Tanja Siren,
Theater and musical performances 2002: Mercure apocryphe, directed by Valérie Crunchant 2002: Je dirai ceci d'obscur, Petit Odéon, Théâtre de l'Odéon 2003: Les Hommes sans aveu, Théâtre du Gymnase (Marseille), Théâtre National de Chaillot 2009: Terra Vagans, Théâtre du Gymnase 2010: Calvino Reloaded, Festival des Correspondances de Manosque, La Dynamo 2012: Mineurs, with pupils of collège Maurice de Vlaminck in Brezolles
Radio 2002: Les Sentimentales funérailles, France Culture, music by Massimo Nunzi 2008: Bruit Blanc, France Culture, with Claude Barthélémy 2012: La Foire aux chansons, France Culture, music by Régis Huby 2012: Calvinologie, France Culture, music by Massimo Nunzi.
Scripts 2007: 24 mesures, by Jalil Lespert 2013: YSL, by Jalil Lespert, contribution to the script
Discography 1999:Vuoti a perdere, bande originale du film, music by Massimo Nunzi 2010: All Around, Abalone-Oenso, music by Régis Huby 2011: Lieder, 3=Tomato, record by Claude Barthélémy
Translations 2002 : IX variations sur un thème de Balthus, Horacio Amigorena, Absteme & Bobance 2007: Tessons roses, Ornela Vorpsi, Actes Sud 2014: Alex's Baby, Anne de Pasquale, Marabout
Prizes 1997: Prix Bretagne for Qui vive 1997: Boursier de la Fondation Hachette 2000: Prix Médicis for Diabolus in musica 2002: Grand Prix international de la fiction radiophonique Paul Gilson for Les Sentimentales funérailles 2003: Prix Goncourt des lycéens for Farrago
References
External links Yann Apperry on Babelio Yann Apperry : Farrago on INA.fr (19 January 2004) Farrago on L'Express (1 November 2003) Yann Apperry on France Culture