Iegor Gran
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Iegor Gran | |
|---|---|
| Born | Iegor Andreyevich Siniavsky December 23, 1964 |
| Education | École Centrale Paris |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Spouse | Catherine Gran |
| Parent(s) | Andrei Sinyavsky Maria Rozanova |
Iegor Gran (born Iegor Andreyevich Siniavsky, 23 December 1964, Moscow) is a Russian-born French novelist.
Iegor Gran was born on 23 December 1964 in Moscow, Russia.[1] His father, Andrei Sinyavsky, was a Russian writer and dissident who was jailed from 1964 to 1971.[1] His mother, Maria Rozanova, was a publisher and an editor.[1] His family moved to France in 1973, when he was nine years old.[1] He graduated from the École Centrale Paris.[1]
Career
He published his first novel, Ipso facto, in 1998. He went on to write eleven more novels, some of which are critiques of political correctness.[1] His twelfth novel, La Revanche de Kevin, is about a novelist who feels bad about being named Kevin.[2]
He has written a bi-monthly column in Charlie Hebdo since 2011.[3]
