Hédi Kaddour (born 1 July 1945 in Tunis) is a French poet and novelist.
Biography
Hédi Kaddour was born of a Tunisian father and a French mother. Received 1st at the aggregation of modern letters, he is a translator of English, German and Arabic. He taught French literature and dramaturgy at the École normale supérieure de Lyon (ex ENS de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud) and journalistic writing at the Centre de formation des journalistes de Paris (CFJ).
He is now a professor of French literature at the New York University in France. He also teaches the writing of reports at the École des métiers de l'information (EMI, Paris) and runs one of the writing workshops of the "NRF" at Éditions Gallimard.
After several collections of poems published by Editions Gallimard, he published Waltenberg [fr] in 2005, a novel that plunges into the history of men and letters of the twentieth century. This book, which mixes adventure and espionage, also houses a sentimental plot tinged with melancholy. Hailed by critics, it received the prix Goncourt du premier roman and the prix du premier roman, and was ranked "Best French novel of the year 2005" by magazine Lire.
A collection of studies on this novel appeared under the title Études sur Waltenberg, roman de Hédi Kaddour, at editions Act Mem (series "Lire Aujourd'hui") in 2007. The novel Waltenberg was translated into English by David Coward at Random House in 2007 and in German by Grete Osterwald in 2009 by Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main.
In January 2010, Hédi Kaddour published two new books: Savoir-vivre, novel, Gallimard, series "Blanche" and "Folio". A German translation appeared by Eichborn Verlag in April 2011. Les Pierres qui montent, notes et croquis de l'année 2008, Gallimard, series "Blanche".
Three of his poems were put into music in 1999 for voice and piano by composer Karol Beffa in the series Six Mélodies (Le Vin nouveau, Théâtre du vide and La Jalousie); These pieces were subsequently transcribed for violin (or viola) and piano in 2008 (Cinq Pièces).
2007: Collective (2007). Études Sur Waltenberg, Roman de Hedi Kaddour. Chambéry, France: Éditions L'Act Mem. p. 312. ISBN9782355130007. Articles by: Frédérique Aït-Touati – Didier Alexandre – Yves Balmer – Christian Biet – Anne-Lise Blanc – Claude Burgelin – Pierre Campion – Gabrielle Chamarat – Florence Chapiro – Pierre Daubigny – Robert Davreu – Jean-Yves Debreuille – Jean-Pierre Dupouy – Bernard Franco – Christian Garcin – Gérald Garutti – Brigitte Gauthier – Gérard Gengembre – Jean Goldzink – Francine Mazière – Claude Mouchard – Nathalie Piégay – Jean-Loup Rivière – Marianne Rubinstein – Martin Rueff – Tiphaine Samoyault - Guillaume Soulez – Muriel Stuckel – Lionel Verdier
Roman Monde: Hédi Kaddour's Waltenberg. Bérengère Vachonfrance-Levet. Paradoxa vol.24: Espionage Fiction:The Seduction of Clandestinity. Pages 187-198. Collectif sous la direction de Robert L. Snyder. 2012.Vashon Island, WA 98070, États-Unis.
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