Marc Cholodenko

Marc Cholodenko (born 11 February 1950 in Paris), is a French novelist, translator, poet, screenwriter and dialoguist.

Awards

Cholodenko won the 1976 Prix Médicis for Les États du désert. He has notably been the male dialoguist of the films by Philippe Garrel since 1988.

Work

Poetry

• Parcs, Flammarion, 1972
• Le Prince, Flammarion, 1973
• Cent Chants à l’adresse de ses Frères, Flammarion, 1974
• Tombeau de Hölderlin, Hachette/Éditions P.O.L, 1979
• 2 Odes, Hachette/P.O.L, 1982
• La Tentation du trajet Rimbaud, Hachette/P.O.L, 1984
• M’éloignant M’en revenant, Sables, 1986
• La Poésie la vie, P.O.L, 1994
• Un Rêve ou un Rêve, P.O.L, 1999
• Imitation, P.O.L, 2002
• Taudis-Autels, P.O.L, 2008
• Filet, P.O.L, 2009
• Puis gris que dilue du rose que brûle le bleu, P.O.L, 2014

Novels

• Le Roi des fées, Christian Bourgois publisher, 1974
• Les États du désert (1976), Flammarion, 1976 - reprint P.O.L, 2011

Prix Médicis

• Les Pleurs, Hachette-P.O.L, 1980 - reprint P.O.L, 2014
• Meurtre, Hachette-P.O.L, 1982
• Mordechai Schamz, Hachette-P.O.L, 1984
• Histoire de Vivant Lanon, P.O.L, 1985
• Bela Jai, Salvy, 1989
• Métamorphoses, Julliard, 1991
• Quasi una fantasia, P.O.L, 1996
• Mon héros (Je ne sais pas), P.O.L, 2000
• NYC, P.O.L, 2004
• Thierry, P.O.L, 2006
• Filet, P.O.L, 2009
• Il est mort ?, P.O.L, 2016

Essays

• Deux cents et quelques commencements ou exercices d'écriture ou de lecture amusants, P.O.L, 2011

Translations

• J R (J R) novel by William Gaddis, Éditions Plon, series "Feux croisés", 1993
• L'inspectrice (The Tax Inspector) novel by Peter Carey, Plon, series "Feux croisés", 1993
• Les Mystères de Pittsburgh (The Mysteries of Pittsburgh) novel by Michael Chabon, 1994. Reprinted in 2009 in the series "Pavillons Poche" at Éditions Robert Laffont.
• La Traversée du milieu novel by V. S. Naipaul, Plon, series "Feux croisés", 1994
• Écorché vif (Skinned Alive: Stories) novel by Edmund White, Plon, series "Feux croisés", 1997

translated with Elisabeth Peellaert

• Mr. Schmidt (About Schmidt) novel by Louis Begley, Editions Grasset, 1997
• Peter Pan est mort (Death Comes for Peter Pan) novel by Joan Brady, Plon, coll. "Feux croisés", 1997
• La Symphonie des adieux (The Farewell Symphony) novel by Edmund White, Plon, series "Feux croisés", 1998
• Les vierges suicidées (The Virgin Suicides) novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, Plon, series "Feux croisés", 1998
• Les chiens-monstres (Lives of the Monster Dogs) novel by Kirsten Bakis, Plon, series "Feux croisés", 1998
• Le dernier acte (A Frolic of His Own) novel by William Gaddis, Plon, series "Feux croisés", 1999
• Le Chant, translation of the Song of Songs, Bayard, 2003

translated with Michel Berder

• Middlesex (Middlesex), novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, Éditions de l'Olivier, 2003
• Politique (Politics), novel by Adam Thirlwell, Éditions de l'Olivier, 2004
• Gothique Charpentier (Carpenter's Gothic) novel by William Gaddis, Christian Bourgois publisher, coll. « Titres », 2006

Screenplays and dialogues

• Les baisers de secours (1989) (scénario)
• J'entends plus la guitare (1991) (dialogues)
• La Naissance de l'amour (1993) (screenplay)
• Oublie-moi (1994) (screenplay)
• Le Cœur fantôme (1996) (dialogues) (screenplay)
• Le vent de la nuit (1999) (dialogues)
• L'Île au bout du monde (1999) (screenplay)
• Wild Innocence (2001) (dialogues)
• Regular Lovers (2005) (collaboration to the screenplay)
• Frontier of the Dawn (2008) (screenplay)
• A Burning Hot Summer (2011) (collaboration to the screenplay)
• Jealousy (2013) (collaboration to the screenplay)

External links

• Marc Cholodenko, on pol-editeur.fr
• Marc Cholodenko on BnF
• Marc Cholodenko at IMDb