Claude Durand
Editing·November 9, 1938·† May 6, 2015 — 76 years old·Livry-Gargan, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
Claude Durand (1938–2015) was a French publisher, translator and writer. He worked in the French film industry editing films, and occasionally writing and directing.
He published leading authors such as Solzhenitsyn and Houellebecq, and together with his wife Carmen, he translated the standard French edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. As a writer, he won the 1979 Prix Médicis for his novel La Nuit zoologique.
As Solzhenitsyn's literary agent (Editions Fayard) since 2003 he acted as an intermediary with "Moscow" when Edward Ericson Jr. and Daniel Mahoney were preparing The Solzhenitsyn Reader. A substantial part of the notes (remarks) on the Journal of the Red Wheel are of his hand.
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2015Pierre Péan - Edwy Plenel : Les Chevaliers du journalisme françaisSelf1975ApostrophesTVSelf1973Prêtres interditsEditor1973La Brigade en folieEditor1972KillerEditor1970The ServantEditor1969Death of a JewEditor1968The TattooEditor1968Dear CarolineEditor1967The Blonde from PekingSound Editor1966Le Coup de grâceDirector1966The Upper HandEditor1965God's ThunderEditor1964Weekend at DunkirkEditor1964Greed in the SunEditor1963Magnet of DoomEditor1962Adieu PhilippineEditor1961Madame is DyingDirector1961La FrontièreDirector · Writer1960On vous parleDirector1960Love and the FrenchwomanEditor1958Would-Be GentlemanEditor1957Anyone Can Kill MeEditor1956An Evening at the Music HallEditor