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Éric Sarner

Éric Sarner, born October 6, 1943 in Algiers, is a French poet and writer, also a journalist and documentary director. Trained in philosophy (Department of Multidisciplinary Studies of Cultures, Paris VIII), notably with Henri Meschonnic and in English, in France and in London. Since 2007, he has shared his life between Berlin, Montevideo (Uruguay) and Paris. He won the Tudor Arghesi Prize (Romania) in 2013. He received the Max Jacob Prize for his collection Cœurchronique in 2014. Writer, poet, filmmaker, journalist, passionate about the great outdoors, this man with an impressive career takes his words, in his professional voice, to the four corners of the world. Born in Algiers in 1943, having lived in Marseille for a time and now residing on the heights of the port of Montevideo, Éric Sarner writes from port to port, ready to leave at any moment. He is the author of the very beautiful La passe du Vent, a travel story in the form of an investigation into the disappearance of the Haitian writer Jacques Stephen Alexis, assassinated in 1961 by the Duvalier regime in circumstances that have never been clarified. Sugar, published in 2001, recounts in verse the life of the great black American boxer Ray "Sugar" Robinson, in a magnificent text since adapted for the theater. Fond of jazz, haunted by the spirits of Jack Kérouac, Elvis Presley or John Steinbeck, Éric Sarner never tires of traveling the United States from East to West along the "mother road", the legendary road 66, to which he dedicated a documentary awarded by the SCAM in 2007 (Route 66, an American odyssey) and a book On Route 66 (Hoëbeke, 2009). A masterful work dedicated to the most legendary road of the 20th century, which was also one of the main paths to the reconquest of the imagination on the American continent.