# Marc Cholodenko

Marc Cholodenko (born 11 February 1950 in Paris), is a French novelist, translator, poet, screenwriter and dialoguist.

## Awards

Cholodenko won the 1976 Prix Médicis for Les États du désert. He has notably been the male dialoguist of the films by Philippe Garrel since 1988.

## Work
### Poetry

* Parcs, Flammarion, 1972
* Le Prince, Flammarion, 1973
* Cent Chants à l’adresse de ses Frères, Flammarion, 1974
* Tombeau de Hölderlin, Hachette/Éditions P.O.L [fr], 1979
* 2 Odes, Hachette/P.O.L, 1982
* La Tentation du trajet Rimbaud, Hachette/P.O.L, 1984
* M’éloignant M’en revenant, Sables, 1986
* La Poésie la vie, P.O.L, 1994
* Un Rêve ou un Rêve, P.O.L, 1999
* Imitation, P.O.L, 2002
* Taudis-Autels, P.O.L, 2008
* Filet, P.O.L, 2009
* Puis gris que dilue du rose que brûle le bleu, P.O.L, 2014

### Novels

* Le Roi des fées, Christian Bourgois [fr] publisher, 1974
* Les États du désert (1976), Flammarion, 1976 - reprint P.O.L, 2011
       Prix Médicis
* Les Pleurs, Hachette-P.O.L, 1980 - reprint P.O.L, 2014
* Meurtre, Hachette-P.O.L, 1982
* Mordechai Schamz, Hachette-P.O.L, 1984
* Histoire de Vivant Lanon, P.O.L, 1985
* Bela Jai, Salvy, 1989
* Métamorphoses, Julliard, 1991
* Quasi una fantasia, P.O.L, 1996
* Mon héros (Je ne sais pas), P.O.L, 2000
* NYC, P.O.L, 2004
* Thierry, P.O.L, 2006
* Filet, P.O.L, 2009
* Il est mort ?, P.O.L, 2016

### Essays

* Deux cents et quelques commencements ou exercices d'écriture ou de lecture amusants, P.O.L, 2011

### Translations

* J R (J R) novel by William Gaddis, Éditions Plon, series "Feux croisés", 1993
* L'inspectrice (The Tax Inspector) novel by Peter Carey, Plon, series "Feux croisés", 1993
* Les Mystères de Pittsburgh (The Mysteries of Pittsburgh) novel by Michael Chabon, 1994. Reprinted in 2009 in the series "Pavillons Poche" at Éditions Robert Laffont.
* La Traversée du milieu novel by V. S. Naipaul, Plon, series "Feux croisés", 1994
* Écorché vif (Skinned Alive: Stories) novel by Edmund White, Plon, series "Feux croisés", 1997
       translated with Elisabeth Peellaert
* Mr. Schmidt (About Schmidt) novel by Louis Begley, Editions Grasset, 1997
* Peter Pan est mort (Death Comes for Peter Pan) novel by Joan Brady, Plon, coll. "Feux croisés", 1997
* La Symphonie des adieux (The Farewell Symphony) novel by Edmund White, Plon, series "Feux croisés", 1998
* Les vierges suicidées (The Virgin Suicides) novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, Plon, series "Feux croisés", 1998
* Les chiens-monstres (Lives of the Monster Dogs) novel by Kirsten Bakis, Plon, series "Feux croisés", 1998
* Le dernier acte (A Frolic of His Own) novel by William Gaddis, Plon, series "Feux croisés", 1999
* Le Chant, translation of the Song of Songs, Bayard, 2003
       translated with Michel Berder
* Middlesex (Middlesex), novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, Éditions de l'Olivier, 2003
* Politique (Politics), novel by Adam Thirlwell, Éditions de l'Olivier, 2004
* Gothique Charpentier (Carpenter's Gothic) novel by William Gaddis, Christian Bourgois publisher, coll. « Titres », 2006

### Screenplays and dialogues

* Les baisers de secours (1989) (scénario)
* J'entends plus la guitare (1991) (dialogues)
* La Naissance de l'amour (1993) (screenplay)
* Oublie-moi (1994) (screenplay)
* Le Cœur fantôme [fr] (1996) (dialogues) (screenplay)
* Le vent de la nuit (1999) (dialogues)
* L'Île au bout du monde (1999) (screenplay)
* Wild Innocence (2001) (dialogues)
* Regular Lovers (2005) (collaboration to the screenplay)
* Frontier of the Dawn (2008) (screenplay)
* A Burning Hot Summer (2011) (collaboration to the screenplay)
* Jealousy (2013) (collaboration to the screenplay)