Tanguy Viel

Tanguy Viel (France, 1973) is a writer. Tanguy Viel was born in Brest in 1973. His first novel, Le Black Note, was published in 1998 by Editions de Minuit. In 2003, he was awarded the Villa Médicis. Mainly a novelist, he is notably the author of Cinéma (1999), L’absolue perfection du crime (Prix Fénéon and Prix de la Vocation 2001), Paris-Brest (2009), Article 353 du Code Pénal (Prix RTL-Lire, Prix Mauriac 2017). He co-wrote Louis Garrel’s film L’innocent, for which he received the César for Best Screenplay 2023.

 

In residence at the Villa Médicis, Tanguy Viel is writing his next book, a cross between essay and poetry. “For a while now, turning my back on fiction, I’ve been making and combining autobiographical fragments of various kinds: descriptions, meditations, ramblings, walks, so many “droplets of experience” crystallized into hundreds of paragraphs whose affinities I’m looking for, like a puzzle whose form and motif are themselves in progress. It’s this whole, with its risky promise of infinity, that I’m now trying to measure out for future books.” Tanguy Viel