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Patrick Deville


Born
in Saint-Brevin-les-Pins (Loire-Atlantique), France
December 14, 1957

Genre
Nonfiction, Fiction

Influences
Blaise Cendrars, Joseph Conrad, Malcolm Lowry, Rimbaud, Louis-Ferdinan ...more


Patrick Deville (born 14 December 1957) is a French writer and studied comparative literature and philosophy at the University of Nantes. During the 1980s, Patrick Deville lived in the Middle East, Nigeria and Algeria. In the 1990s, he regularly visited Cuba and Uruguay.

In 2011, Lire magazine editors selected Kampuchea as the best French novel of the year. His novel Plague and Cholera (life of the bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin) was one of the most prominent of the literary season (2012), and was a finalist in almost all French book awards. He received the Fnac and the Prix Femina prize for the novel.

His books have now been translated into a dozen languages.

(Rephrased from Wikipedia)

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Average rating: 3.67 · 2,212 ratings · 281 reviews · 35 distinct works • Similar authors
Peste & Choléra
3.75 avg rating — 1,478 ratings — 6 editions
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Viva
3.64 avg rating — 233 ratings — published 2014 — 19 editions
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Kampuchéa
3.58 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 2011
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Equatoria
3.73 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2009 — 14 editions
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Pura Vida
3.37 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
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Amazonia
3.39 avg rating — 46 ratings — 6 editions
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Viễn Vọng
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3.21 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions
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Fenua
3.48 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions
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Samsara
3.45 avg rating — 31 ratings — 4 editions
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Taba-Taba
3.19 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2017 — 13 editions
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“Tout est encore possible et le monde médical est tout neuf. Ca ne va pas durer. Ils le savent bien. Ils sont là au bon moment pour avoir leur nom en latin accolé à celui d'un bacille.”
― Patrick Deville, Peste & Choléra
tags: medecine, pasteur, yersin
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“Yersin thích trật tự và xa hoa, bởi xa hoa đồng nghĩa với tĩnh lặng. Điều tệ hại nhất của cảnh nghèo đói bần cùng, là lúc nào cũng bị quấy rầy. Không bao giờ được ở một mình”
― Patrick Deville, Peste & Choléra
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“Es posible cultivar sueños del Norte y sueños de Sur, de Occidente y de Oriente. Lo inevitable, al parecer, es no querer estar donde se está.”
― Patrick Deville
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