Nina Yargekov

Nina Yargekov
Nina Yargekov in 2017
Born	(1980-07-21) July 21, 1980 (age 44) France
Occupation	Novelist
Language	French
Notable works	Double nationalité (Dual Nationality)
Notable awards	Prix de Flore (2016)

Nina Yargekov^[1] (born 21 July 1980)^[2] is a French-Hungarian novelist and translator.

Life and career

Yargekov was born in France to Hungarian parents. She studied Sociology and is a translator and interpreter.^[3]

She published her first book in 2009, Tuer Catherine (Kill Catherine), published by Éditions P.O.L [fr], a novel which critics have labelled as somewhat autobiographical in nature,^[4][5] which led certain commentators to compare Yargekov to other well-known French authors such as Chloé Delaume and Max Monnehay [fr].^[6] Chloé Delaume had herself mentioned that she had followed Yargekov before the publication of her first novel, which she described as "an extremely unique voice. I followed her manuscript through all its different versions, and I am so happy that it will finally be published next winter through POL."^[7] In 2011, she published Vous serez mes témoins (You will be my witnesses), a novel about 'fake identity in mourning'.^{[8][9][10][11]}

Her novel Double Nationalité [fr] (Dual Nationality) - the story of an amnesiac woman who finds herself in an airport with two passports, two cultures, two languages - was awarded the Prix de Flore on the 8 November 2016.^[3]

Also a musician and singer, Yargekov has since 2018 been part of the industrial rock group KNS with Samantha Barendson and Karim Kattan.^[12]

Works

Novels

• Tuer Catherine (Kill Catherine), éditions P.O.L [fr], 2009
• Vous serez mes témoins (You will be my witnesses), éditions P.O.L, 2011
• Double Nationalité [fr] (Dual Nationality), éditions P.O.L, 2016 - winner of the 2016 Prix de Flore^[13]

Collections

• L'autre Iseut (The Other Iseut), published in Et encore un livre (And Another Book), directed by Marie Darrieussecq, Centre Dramatique National d’Orléans, 2009
• Comme Erika (Like Erika), published in Mon corps est un champ de bataille (My Body is a Battlefield), Ma colère, 2009
• Panoplie argumentative (Argumentative Costume), published in Alim, directed by Émilie Notéris, IMHO, 2010
• Y comme Yourcenar (Y is for Yourcenar), published in Un livre peut en cacher un autre (One Book Can Hide Another), alphabet book illustrated by Christian Lacroix and sold in bookshops, 2014

Journals

Publications in the journals Cahier critique de poésie (Critical Notebook of Poetry - CipM [fr]), Korunk, Rouge-déclic, Raise magazine, TINA...

Notes and references

1. Nina Yargekov is the author's pen name. See Nina Yargekov «J’ai le titre depuis dix ans» (Nina Yargekov "I have had the name for ten years") by Claire Devarrieux in Libération (18 November 2016)
2. https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb159986167.public
3. Nina Yargekov, lauréate du prix de Flore pour "Double nationalité" (Nina Yargekov, Prix de Flore laureate for "Double nationalité), LExpress.fr, 9 February 2017, accessed 9 February 2017, http://www.lexpress.fr/culture/nina-yargekov-laureate-du-prix-de-flore-pour-double-nationalite%201848501.html
4. Chloé Brendlé, Tuer Catherine, Le Matricule des anges [fr], issue 102, April 2009 ISBN 978-2-84682-278-7
5. Nelly Kaprièlan, Les Inrockuptibles, 3 February 2009
6. Nina Yargekov, L'Express, http://fiches.lexpress.fr/personnalite/nina-yargekov_1045299/biographie
7. Remarque 468, official site of Chloé Delaume, http://www.chloedelaume.net/remarques/rem468.php
8. Interview with Alain Veinstein, 31 May 2011, on France Culture, http://www.franceculture.fr/personne-nina-yargekov.html
9. Nelly Kaprièlan, Vous serez mes témoins : comment faire le deuil d'une ami suicidé ? (You will be my witnesses: how to grieve a friend who has committed suicide?), Les Inrockuptibles, 19 March 2011, http://www.pol-editeur.com/index.php?spec=livre&ISBN=978-2-84682-278-7
10. Review on Le Masque et la Plume [fr] (France Inter), 13 March 2011, https://www.franceinter.fr/em/lemasqueetlaplume/100998
11. Interview on L'Auberge roumaine (Romanian Inn), created by the French lecturers at the University of Bucharest, http://lectoratfrancaisunibuc.wordpress.com/radiolecto/
12. Official website of Samantha Barendson, https://www.samantha-barendson.com/pages/collaborations/kns.html
13. Le prix de Flore 2016 pour Nina Yargekov et sa “Double nationalité” (The 2016 Prix de Flore for Nina Yargekov and her "Dual Nationality"), on Bibliobs, 9 November 2016, accessed 9 November 2016, http://bibliobs.nouvelobs.com/sur-le-sentier-des-prix/20161108.OBS0894/le-prix-de-flore-2016-pour-nina-yargekov-et-sa-double-nationalite.html

External links

• Official blog
• Nina Yargekov on the éditions P.O.L [fr] website