Karine Tuil, is a French novelist who has written several award-winning novels in French and English. Her works have themes ranging from marriage and Jewish identity to detention centers and corporate politics.
Background
Tull was born in Paris on May 3, 1972. After obtaining her baccalaureate, she studied law, and received a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Communication Law at the University of Paris II. Tull was practicing as a lawyer but prepared a thesis she did not defend. She then decided to devote herself to writing.
Career
Tull's first published novel, Pour le Pire, was noticed by Jean-Marie Rouart. It was published in September 2000 by Plon publishing house. The novel describes the slow decomposition of a couple. Her second novel, Forbidden, – a satirical account of the identity crisis of an old Jew – was selected for the prize Goncourt Prize and the Wizo Prize. It is translated in several languages and was adapted to the theater by Salomé Lelouch in 2014 under the title The marriage of Mr Wessmann. Female Sex, published in 2002 is a comedy about mother-daughter relationships. This third novel concludes her trilogy on the Jewish family. In 2003, she published Tout sur mon frère,,which explores the negative effects of autofiction.. It was nominated for the Booksellers' Prize and was a finalist for the France-Television Award. In 2005, Tull published When I Was Funny, which is a French comedy set in New York. In 2007, Douce France appeared, a social novel about administrative detention centers. In 2008, Tull released Domination. It is about power politics in the publishing world through the prisms of identity. Domination was a first selections for the Goncourt prize, the Goncourt high school prize and the Flore prize. Tull she received the Stendhal Scholarship from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for this novel In 2010, her novel Six Months, Six Days was a first and second selection of the 2010 Goncourt Prize, the first selection of the Interallié Prize and the Goncourt high school students' prize. In 2011, she won the prix littéraire du Roman News. Tulll's ninth novel entitled L'Invention de nos vies was published in September 2013 by the Grasset publishing house. This novel looks at "the story of a young man of Arab descent, Samir, who, to succeed in his career as a business lawyer in New York," borrows "part of the identity of his best childhood friend, a Jew named Samuel ". The novel appeared in several selections of literary prizes, including the Femina, Interallié, Goncourt, Goncourt high school students, and the prix des libraires. It was a finalist of the Goncourt Prize. L'Invention de nos vies was translated in several countries including Great Britain, the United States, Canada, Italy, China, Greece, the Netherlands, and Germany. Tull's novel The Insouciance was published in 2016. On the publication of this tenth novel, the newspaper Le Monde in 2016 writes, on all her books: "Some themes are obvious. For example the Jewishness of the characters. And subsequently: the father, the law, the Kafkaesque humor - Insouciance adds in the author's Letter to the father ". The novel won the Landerneau Prize for readers.
Awards and distinctions
2011, Fiction News Prize for Six Months, Six Days 5
Prix littéraires Les Lauriers Verts in the 2013 fiction category for the L'Invention de nos vies.
The Carefree was selected in 2016 for the Goncourt prize – the grand prize of the French Academy – and the Interallié, and received the Landerneau Prize of the readers on October 5, 2016 21.
2017: Collective, Qu'est-ce que la gauche?, Fayard
Adaptation of her work
2014 - 2015: The Wedding of Mr Wessmann, based in the work Forbidden, adaptation of Salomé Lelouch, theater La Bruyère from October 2014 to June 2015; Avignon Festival in July 2015.
