Iegor Gran (born Iegor Andreyevich Siniavsky, 23 December 1964, Moscow) is a Russian-born French novelist.

Early life

Iegor Gran was born on 23 December 1964 in Moscow, Russia.^[1] His father, Andrei Sinyavsky, was a Russian writer and dissident who was jailed from 1964 to 1971.^[1] His mother, Maria Rozanova, was a publisher and an editor.^[1] His family moved to France in 1973, when he was nine years old.^[1] He graduated from the École Centrale Paris.^[1]

Career

He published his first novel, Ipso facto, in 1998. He went on to write eleven more novels, some of which are critiques of political correctness.^[1] His twelfth novel, La Revanche de Kevin, is about a novelist who feels bad about being named Kevin.^[2]

He has written a bi-monthly column in Charlie Hebdo since 2011.^[3]

Personal life

He is married to Catherine Gran, a painter.^[1] They live in Paris.^[1]

Bibliography

• Ipso facto (Paris: Éditions P.O.L, 1998).
• Acné festival (Paris: P.O.L., 1999).
• Spécimen mâle (Paris: P.O.L., 2001).
• ONG ! (Paris: P.O.L., 2003).
• Le Truoc-Nog (Paris: P.O.L., 2003).
• Jeanne d'Arc fait tic-tac (Paris: P.O.L., 2005).
• Les Trois Vies de Lucie (Paris: P.O.L., 2006).
• Thriller (Paris: P.O.L., 2009).
• L’écologie en bas de chez moi (Paris: P.O.L., 2011).
• L'Ambition (Paris: P.O.L., 2013).
• Vilaines Pensées, Les Échappés (2014).
• La Revanche de Kevin (Paris: P.O.L., 2015).
• Le Retour de Russie (Paris: P.O.L, 2016).
• Écrire à l'élastique (Paris, P.O.L, 2017).
• Rêve plus vite, camarade ! L'industrie du slogan en URSS de 1918 à 1935 (Paris: Les Échappés, 2017).
• Les Services compétents (Paris: P.O.L, 2020).
• Ces casseroles qui applaudissent aux fenêtres (Paris: P.O.L, 2020)
• Le Journal d'Alix (Paris: P.O.L, 2022).
• Z Comme Zombie (Paris: P.O.L., 2022).

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