Marc Cholodenko (born 11 February 1950 in Paris), is a French novelist, translator, poet, screenwriter and dialoguist.^[1][2][3][4]

Awards

Cholodenko won the 1976 Prix Médicis for Les États du désert.^[5] He has notably been the male dialoguist of the films by Philippe Garrel^[6] 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 [fr], 1979
• 2 Odes, Hachette/P.O.L, 1982
• La Tentation du trajet Rimbaud,^[7] 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 [fr] 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 ?,^[8] P.O.L, 2016

Essays

• Deux cents et quelques commencements ou exercices d'écriture ou de lecture amusants,^[9] 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 [fr] (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)