What is Franck Balandier?
{{Infobox person | name = Franck Balandier | image = Soudain,_l'été_dernier.jpg | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = Balandier in his garden | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = 11 July 1952 | birth_place = [[Suresnes]], [[France]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2020|12|17|1952|07|11}} | death_place = [[Paris]], France | nationality = [[French people|French]] | other_names = | occupation = Writer | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''Franck Balandier''' (11 July 1952 – 17 December 2020) was a French writer.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.castorastral.com/2020/12/18/notre-ami-franck-balandier-vient-de-nous-quitter/|title=Notre ami FRANCK BALANDIER vient de nous quitter|work=Le Castor Astral|language=French}}</ref> He was a member of the [[Société des gens de lettres]]. Balandier wrote his first novel in 1988. Balandier died on 17 December 2020 in Paris at the age of 68.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.livreshebdo.fr/article/deces-de-lecrivain-franck-balandier|title=Décès de l’écrivain Franck Balandier|date=21 December 2020|work=Livres Hebdo|language=French}}</ref> ==Publications== ===Novels=== *''Les Nuits périphériques'' (1988) *''L’Homme à la voiture rouge'' (2000) *''Ankylose'' (2005) *''Le Silence des rails'' (2014) *''Le Corps parfait des araignées'' (2017) *''Gazoline Tango'' (2017) *''APO'' (2018) ===Biographies=== *''Les Prisons d’Apollinaire'' (2001) *''Des poètes derrière les barreaux'' (2012) *''Le Paris d'Apollinaire'' (2018) ===Poetry=== *''Les Hommes sans épaules'' *''L'Heure tiède'' (2019) ===News=== *''Clito, Osez vingt histoires de sexe au soleil'' (2019) ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Balandier, Franck}} [[Category:1952 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:French novelists]] [[Category:French poets]] {{bio-stub}}