Serge Koster

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Serge Koster
Born(1940-08-03)3 August 1940
Paris, France, Germany
Died12 January 2022(2022-01-12) (aged 81)
NationalityFrench
EducationLycée Louis-le-Grand
Lycée Lakanal
Occupation(s)Writer
Professor

Serge Koster (3 August 1940 – 12 January 2022) was a French writer and academic.[1]

Biography

Koster was born on 3 August 1940,[2] into an Ashkenazi Jewish family from Poland. In 1960, he met his wife, Geneviève, with whom he had a daughter, Delphine, as well as three grandchildren.[3] In 1970, his father died in a traffic collision, which prompted him to write Le soleil ni la mort in 1975, edited by Maurice Nadeau.

After earning an agrégation in grammar, Koster became a French teacher at the Lycée Voltaire in Paris. He was a literary critic for the radio program Le Panorama, broadcast on France Culture. He also edited the magazine La Quinzaine littéraire [fr]. Since 2015, he had served on the editorial board of La Nouvelle Quinzaine littéraire.[4]

Koster died on 12 January 2022, at the age of 81.[5]

Works

Novels

  • Le Soleil ni la mort (1975)
  • Le Rêve du scribe (1976)
  • Une histoire qui ne finira jamais (1978)
  • Les Langues de terre (1980)
  • L'Homme suivi (1982)
  • Le Voyage inachevé (1983)
  • Une femme de si près tenue (1985)
  • La Condition du passager (1987)
  • L'Amour voyageur (1990)
  • Trou de mémoire (2003)
  • La Nuit passionnément (1993)
  • À celle qui écoute (1994)
  • Noëlle, cadeau (1998)
  • La Tristesse du témoin (1999)
  • J'ai dû heurter un astre. Triptyque amoureux (2000)
  • Le Commerce des corps (2005)
  • Ces choses qui blessent le cœur (2007)
  • Figures de style (2021)

References

  1. ^ "Serge Koster". Babelio (in French).
  2. ^ Koster, Serge. "Francis Ponge" (PDF). Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  3. ^ Céhère, Marie (13 March 2016). "Dans la peau de Serge Koster". Causeur (in French). Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Serge Koster". Quinzaines (in French).
  5. ^ "Avis de décès de Monsieur Serge KOSTER". Simplifia (in French). 20 January 2022.