Jean-Luc Benoziglio

Jean-Luc Benoziglio (19 November 1941 – 5 December 2013) was a Swiss-French writer and publishing editor.^[1]

He was born in Monthey, Valais, on 19 November 1941. His father, Nissim Beno, was a Jewish psychiatrist who had emigrated from Turkey; his mother was an Italian and a strict Catholic. The Holocaust was a recurrent concern of his writing.^[2]

Benoziglio studied law at the University of Lausanne but dropped out before completing his degree, and moved to Paris where he remained for most of his life. His first avant-garde novels, produced 1972–8, were popular only within a small circle. His sixth novel, Cabinet-portrait, published in 1980, had a more mainstream style and received more widespread attention, as well as being awarded the Prix Médicis.^[2][3][4] In 2010, he was awarded the Grand Prix C. F. Ramuz, honouring his lifetime of work.

His work is characterised by black humor and the influence of the Nouveau roman and Oulipo.^[3]

Jean-Luc Benoziglio died on 5 December 2013, aged 72, in Paris, France, where he had lived since 1967.^[5][6]

• 1972 – Quelqu'un bis est mort
• 1973 – Le Midship
• 1974 – La Boîte noire
• 1976 – Béno s'en va-t-en guerre
• 1978 – L'Écrivain fantôme
• 1980 – Cabinet-portrait (Prix Médicis 1980)
• 1986 – Le Jour où naquit Kary Karinaky
• 1989 – Tableaux d'une ex
• 1991 – La Pyramide ronde
• 1993 – Peinture avec pistolet
• 1998 – Le Feu au lac
• 1999 – Peinture avec pistolet
• 2001 – La Pyramide ronde
• 2004 – La Voix des mauvais jours et des chagrins rentrés
• 2005 – Louis Capet, suite et fin

• Publications by and about Jean-Luc Benoziglio in the catalogue Helveticat of the Swiss National Library

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