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Prélude to Suite française Thursday, November 6 Olivier Philipponnat was in 1967 in Épernay, in the Marne department, Olivier Philipponnat is the author ofRoger Stéphane, enquête sur l'aventurier (with Patrick Lienhardt, Grasset, 2004), a highly-praised biography of the founder ofL'Observateur and pioneer of cultural television. La Vie d'Irène Némirovsky (Grasset/Denoël, 2007), the first comprehensive biography of the author of Suite française (Denoël, 2004; Knopf, 2006), is based on letters, archives, and drafts as well as previously unseen texts. The book received Le Point's 2008 prize for biography, and it is scheduled to be published in the United States by Knopf in fall 2008. He also composed the prefaces to two previously unpublished novels by Némirovsky,Le Maître des âmes (The Master of Spirits, Denoël, 2005) and Chaleur du sang(Denoël, 2007 ; Fire in the Blood, Knopf, 2007), as well as a new edition of Mouches d'automne (Snow in Autumn), along with three previously unknown texts (Grasset,Cahiers rouges, to be published in 2009). Formerly a music critic at Compact and Cinefonia and now a literary critic forparutions.com and the Magazine des livres, Philipponnat is also the co-author of theDictionnaire superflu de la musique (Le Castor astral, 2004; November 2008 reissue). This lecutre is co-sponsored by Macalester, The Delegation Générale de l'Alliance Française de Washington, Minnesota Accueil, The Alliance française des villes jumelles and The Minnesota International Center
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