François Cavanna
Encyclopedia
François Cavanna is a French
author
and satirical newspaper editor.
He contributed to the creation and success of Hara-Kiri (magazine)
and Charlie Hebdo
. He has written in a variety of genres including reportage, satire, essays, novels, autobiography and humor.
Although raised in France, he grew up surrounded by Italian immigrants due to his father's being from Italy. He treated this life in his book Les Ritals (1978). At the age of 16, he took up various part-time jobs. He delivered letters for the postal service, sold fruits and vegetables, and was a mason's apprentice. His journalistic debut came in 1945 when he began to work for the daily Libération.
In November 1969, Hara-Kiri was banned by the authorities for being pornographic. Cavanna came up with the expedient of renaming the magazine for the next weeks' issue, and thus, Charlie Hebdo was born. http://www.evene.fr/celebre/biographie/francois-cavanna-2203.php
Later, he turned to autobiographical writing. Les Ritals, mentioned above, dealt with his childhood, while Russkofs treated his experience in World War II
and was the novel for which he won the Prix Interallié in 1979. http://www.evene.fr/celebre/biographie/francois-cavanna-2203.php
France
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author
Author
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and satirical newspaper editor.
He contributed to the creation and success of Hara-Kiri (magazine)
Hara-Kiri (magazine)
In 1960, Georges Bernier, Cavanna and Fred Aristidès created the monthly satirical magazine Hara-Kiri. Hara Kiri Hebdo, its weekly counterpart, was first published in 1969....
and Charlie Hebdo
Charlie Hebdo
Charlie Hebdo is a French satirical weekly newspaper, featuring cartoons, reports, polemics and jokes. It appeared from 1969 to 1981, when it folded, and was resurrected in 1992. The current editor is cartoonist Charb. His predecessors are François Cavanna and Philippe Val...
. He has written in a variety of genres including reportage, satire, essays, novels, autobiography and humor.
Although raised in France, he grew up surrounded by Italian immigrants due to his father's being from Italy. He treated this life in his book Les Ritals (1978). At the age of 16, he took up various part-time jobs. He delivered letters for the postal service, sold fruits and vegetables, and was a mason's apprentice. His journalistic debut came in 1945 when he began to work for the daily Libération.
In November 1969, Hara-Kiri was banned by the authorities for being pornographic. Cavanna came up with the expedient of renaming the magazine for the next weeks' issue, and thus, Charlie Hebdo was born. http://www.evene.fr/celebre/biographie/francois-cavanna-2203.php
Later, he turned to autobiographical writing. Les Ritals, mentioned above, dealt with his childhood, while Russkofs treated his experience in World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
and was the novel for which he won the Prix Interallié in 1979. http://www.evene.fr/celebre/biographie/francois-cavanna-2203.php
Publications (in chronological order)
- 4, rue Choron (1965)
- Je l’ai pas lu, je l’ai pas vu, mais j’en ai entendu causer: chroniques de Hara-Kiri hebdo, 1969 II (1970)
- Je l’ai pas lu, je l’ai pas vu, mais j’en ai entendu causer: chroniques de Hara-kiri hebdo, 1969 I (1975)
- Le con Se Surpasse (1975)
- Où s’arrêtera-t-il? (1977)
- Les russkoffs (1979)
- Les ritals (1978)
- Les yeux plus grands que le ventre (1983)
- --et le singe devint con: l’aurore de l’humanité (1984)
- L’œil du lapin (1987)
- Les fosses carolines (1986)
- Les aventures de Napoléon (1988)
- La couronne d’Irène (1988)
- Maman, au secours! (1990)
- Nos ancêtres les Gaulois, ou, l’histoire de France redécouverte par Cavanna (1991)
- Les grands imposteurs (1991)
- Coups de sang (1991)
- La belle fille sur le tas d’ordures (1991)
- Dieu, Mozart, Le Pen et les autres-- : les nouveaux imposteurs (1992)
- De Coluche à Mitterrand: l’intégrale de Cavanna dans Charlie Hebdo, année 1981 (1993)
- Les enfants de Germinal (1993)
- Les pensées (1994)
- Lettre ouverte aux culs-bénits (1994)
- Le Hun blond: roman (1998). Historical romance about events in Gaul and Frankish Europe in the decades after Attila the HunAttila the HunAttila , more frequently referred to as Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death in 453. He was leader of the Hunnic Empire, which stretched from the Ural River to the Rhine River and from the Danube River to the Baltic Sea. During his reign he was one of the most feared...
- La hache et la croix : roman (1999)
- La Déesse Mère: roman (1997)
- Le dieu de Clotilde: roman (2000)
- Le sang de Clovis: roman (2001)
- Les reines rouges: roman (2002)
- Les écritures: les aventures de Dieu et du petit Jésus (2002)
- Le voyage (2006). A historical novel about the voyages of Christopher ColumbusChristopher ColumbusChristopher Columbus was an explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa, in northwestern Italy. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents in the...
told from the point of view of an Irish shipmate.