Jean-Luc Benoziglio (19 November 1941 – 5 December 2013) was a Swiss-French writer and publishing editor.
He was born in Monthey, Valais, on 19 November 1941. His father, Nissim Beno, was a Jewish psychiatrist who had emigrated from Turkey; his mother was an Italian and a strict Catholic. The Holocaust was a recurrent concern of his writing.
Benoziglio studied law at the University of Lausanne but dropped out before completing his degree, and moved to Paris where he remained for most of his life. His first avant-garde novels, produced 1972–8, were popular only within a small circle. His sixth novel, Cabinet-portrait, published in 1980, had a more mainstream style and received more widespread attention, as well as being awarded the Prix Médicis. In 2010, he was awarded the Grand Prix C. F. Ramuz, honouring his lifetime of work.
His work is characterised by black humor and the influence of the Nouveau roman and Oulipo.
Jean-Luc Benoziglio died on 5 December 2013, aged 72, in Paris, France, where he had lived since 1967.
Bibliography 1972 – Quelqu'un bis est mort 1973 – Le Midship 1974 – La Boîte noire 1976 – Béno s'en va-t-en guerre 1978 – L'Écrivain fantôme 1980 – Cabinet-portrait (Prix Médicis 1980) 1986 – Le Jour où naquit Kary Karinaky 1989 – Tableaux d'une ex 1991 – La Pyramide ronde 1993 – Peinture avec pistolet 1998 – Le Feu au lac 1999 – Peinture avec pistolet 2001 – La Pyramide ronde 2004 – La Voix des mauvais jours et des chagrins rentrés 2005 – Louis Capet, suite et fin
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