Jean Echenoz

Winner, Prix Goncourt

Jean Echenoz won France’s prestigious Prix Goncourt for I’m Gone (The New Press). He is the author of eleven novels in English translation—including 1914, Big Blondes, Lightning, Piano, Ravel, Running, and Special Envoy, all published by The New Press—and the winner of numerous literary prizes, among them the Prix Médicis and the European Literature Jeopardy Prize. He lives in Paris.

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Books by Jean Echenoz

1914
A Novel

Jean Echenoz

Big Blondes

Jean Echenoz

I’m Gone
A Novel

Jean Echenoz

Lightning
A Novel

Jean Echenoz

Piano
A Novel

Jean Echenoz

The Queen’s Caprice
Stories

Jean Echenoz

Ravel
A Novel

Jean Echenoz

Running
A Novel

Jean Echenoz

Special Envoy
A Spy Novel

Jean Echenoz

Three by Echenoz
Big Blondes, Piano, and Running

Jean Echenoz