Augustin Trapenard
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Augustin Trapenard | |
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| Born | 3 April 1979 Paris, France |
| Occupation(s) | Television presenter, columnist, actor |
Augustin Trapenard (born 3 April 1979) is a French cultural journalist and literary critic.
Biography
[edit]Early life
[edit]He is the son of Gilles Trapenard, a banker turned horse breeder near Vichy, and Catherine Missoffe, a teacher. He has a sister, Constance, who is a publisher, and two brothers: Thomas, a horse racing trainer, and Vincent, an entrepreneur. Trapenard spent his childhood between Wimbledon, England, and La Celle-Saint-Cloud, in the western suburbs of Paris.[1][2][3][4]
Education and Publications
[edit]A former student of the Lakanal high school in Sceaux and the École Normale Supérieure of Lyon (2000), Trapenard became an English literature teacher at ENS Lyon from 2006 to 2009.[5] He began a PhD on Emily Brontë's works and the notion of authorship in the Victorian era, spending a year at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2008, he wrote the postscript for the first French edition of Emily Brontë's Devoirs de Bruxelles and published interviews with American author Edmund White in 2009.[6][7]
Cultural journalism
[edit]Print and radio
[edit]Trapenard worked briefly as a literary critic for Elle and Le Magazine Littéraire and wrote a column in the America magazine. On the radio, he contributed to shows on Radio Nova and France Culture before producing and hosting literary programs on France Inter, including Boomerang, a daily interview with cultural figures, and reading letters from artists during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020.[8][9]
Television
[edit]He hosted a literary segment on France 24 and later joined Le Grand Journal on Canal+ in 2012. In 2016, he succeeded Daphné Roulier as the host of Le Cercle and launched spin-offs focused on film and television series. He also hosted 21 cm, a monthly literary interview program on Canal+ until January 2021. Trapenard left Canal+ amid tensions following the dismissal of other prominent journalists.[10][11][12]
In May 2021, he launched a new literary show on the BrutX platform called Plumard.[13]
Jury roles
[edit]Trapenard has served on numerous juries, including the Franz Hessel Prize, the Alexandre-Vialatte Prize, and the Grand Jury of the Angoulême International Comics Festival. In 2024, he became president of the France Télévisions Audience Award at the same festival.[14][15][16][17]
Awards and honors
[edit]Trapenard has received several accolades for his work, including the 2018 Philippe-Caloni Award for best interviewer,[18] the 2019 Grand Prix des Médias CB News for his show Boomerang,[19] and the HeForShe Award from UN Women France in 2019 for his commitment to gender equality.[20][21] In 2020, he was made a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters.[22]
Selected publications and filmography
[edit]He has authored several works on Emily Brontë and published interviews with Edmund White. He has also appeared as himself in films and TV series, including Les Yeux jaunes des crocodiles and Dix pour cent.
References
[edit]- ^ "Family Story | Haras de Sivola".
- ^ "M. Vincent TRAPENARD, Mlle Katherine DESBAILLETS". carnetdujour.lefigaro.fr.
- ^ Girard, Quentin. "Augustin Trapenard, bouillon de culture". Libération.
- ^ "Augustin Trapenard, exception culturelle française". Le Figaro. 30 September 2022.
- ^ Lesniak, Isabelle (28 August 2024). "Augustin Trapenard, le plus grand libraire de France". Le Echo.
- ^ "Alumni ENS de Lyon - La communauté des anciens des ENS de Lyon, LSH, Fontenay-aux-Roses et Saint-Cloud". Alumni ENS de Lyon.
- ^ "Augustin Trapenard". Babelio (in French). Retrieved 12 September 2024.
- ^ "Qui sommes-nous ? – America". www.america-mag.com.
- ^ "Revue America". 22 September 2017.
- ^ "Augustin Trapenard, bête de textes". www.telerama.fr. 13 March 2012.
- ^ Trapenard, Augustin (10 June 2011). "Toute toute première fois : podcast et émission en replay". France Inter.
- ^ "Les Bonnes feuilles : podcast et émission en replay". France Culture. 26 August 2015.
- ^ "Augustin Trapenard débarque sur BrutX : "Ma liberté de ton n'en sera que plus grande"". www.telerama.fr. 4 May 2021.
- ^ "Le réalisateur norvégien Joachim Trier, Président du Jury de la 57e Semaine de la Critique". Semaine de la Critique du Festival de Cannes.
- ^ "Pénélope Bagieu, Augustin Trapenard... un jury prestigieux pour le Fauve d'Or du festival d'Angoulême - Bubble BD, Comics et Mangas".
- ^ "Le Grand Jury du Festival d'Angoulême 2019". Comixtrip.
- ^ "Jury – Andam".
- ^ "Augustin Trapenard reçoit le Prix Philippe Caloni 2018 du meilleur intervieweur de l'année – Scam : Société civile des auteurs multimédia".
- ^ Guédot, Valérie (3 September 2019). "France Inter récompensée au Grand Prix des médias CB News 2019 dans 2 catégories". France Inter.
- ^ Perrier, Jean (25 November 2019). "Augustin Trapenard : "Parler à la place des femmes, c'est problématique..."". GQ France.
- ^ Dolat, Béline (25 November 2019). "Les Femmes et les Hommes de l'année 2019". GQ France.
- ^ "Nomination dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres – hiver 2020". www.culture.gouv.fr. 1 July 2020.
External links
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- Augustin Trapenard at IMDb
- Augustin Trapenard on Twitter (in French)
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