Jean-Luc Coatalem at the 2001 International Geography Festival
Jean-Luc Coatalem (18 September 1959, Paris[1]) is a French journalist and writer.
Biography
In the wake of a family of officers, Jean-Luc Coatalem spent his childhood in Polynesia and his adolescence in Madagascar. The incessant removals gave him the taste of elsewhere and would make him bulimic on travels and reports.
Coming to his thirties, this traveller, novelist, writer and essayist writer for whom "all travel ends in books and everything starts from a reading",[4] published wandering narratives (Mission au Paraguay, Suite indochinoise...) and humorous novels (Capitaine, Le Fils du fakir).
In 2001, Je suis dans les mers du Sud, a very personal essay that he drew from an investigation on Paul Gauguin, was distinguished by numerous awards, including the Prix Breizh 2002[6] and was translated into English and Chinese. He confirmed his notoriety two years later with an ode to geography and wandering, La consolation des voyages.
Jean-Luc Coatalem no longer hesitates to approach intimist writing. Il faut se quitter déjà published in 2008, is a melancholic account of a non-passionate love wandering between Buenos Aires and Montevideo. Le Dernier roi d'Angkor, inspired by the difficult adoption of a Cambodian orphan, evokes the indescribable tear of a past abolished.
After Le Gouverneur d’Antipodia[7] published at Le Dilettante [fr] in 2012 was awarded the Prix Roger Nimier, he published Nouilles froides à Pyongyang,[8] an unusual narrative under the dictatorship of Kim Jong-Il. His last work, Fortune de mer[9] was published by Stock editor in 2015.
Passionate about art and graphic design, he participated in parallel to works or catalogues around the sculptor Denis Monfleur at editions la Table ronde, and the painter François Dilasser at editions La Navire, but also developed a fruitful collaboration with his accomplice and friend Jacques de Loustal. They jointly signed three albums with Casterman.
2013: Avec les Indiens du bout du monde - Les sept voyages du Commandant Martial [fr] au Cap Horn, in Aventuriers du monde - Les archives des explorateurs français, 1827-1914., p. 156-175, Éditions de l'Iconoclaste, ISBN978-2-91336-660-2.
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