Homage to the writer Mathieu Riboulet
The Book Office is sad to announce the loss of Mathieu Riboulet, who passed away yesterday in Bordeaux. Aged 57, Mathieu Riboulet had been fighting against cancer for two years.
Born in 1960, Mathieu Riboulet was making self-produced films before he turned to writing. His written pieces are often described as delicate, endeavouring to do justice to fragile, painful feelings. His four first literary works, unclassifiable and authentic, were published by Maurice Nadeau. His later works include L’Amant des morts, 2008, in which Mathieu Riboulet poetically paints the portrait of a generation caught between libertinism and tragedy. The novel was awarded the Thyde Monnier Prize in 2008 and the Estuaire Prize in 2009. With Les Œuvres de miséricorde, Décembre Prize 2012, Mathieu Riboulet showed that he did not shy away from violent subject such as the Holocaust or the persecution of homosexuals. One of his most recent works, Entre les deux il n’y a rien, had just been adapted for the stage by Anne Monfort last month.
Mathieu Riboulet leaves behind him a powerful collection of works, with a taste for the spiritual, the historical and the sensual. Not as yet translated into English, his novels deserve to be known to a broadened audience.
Mathieu Riboulet’s bibliography includes: