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'''Amanda Filipacchi''' (born 1967) (pronounced Fili-'pah-kee) is an [[United States|American]] writer. She is the author of three novels. |
'''Amanda Filipacchi''' (born 1967) (pronounced Fili-'pah-kee) is an [[United States|American]] writer. She is the author of three novels. Her latest, ''[[Love Creeps]]'', is optioned for a film. |
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==Biography== |
==Biography== |
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Amanda Filipacchi | |
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 Amanda Filipacchi | |
| Born | 1967 (age 56–57) Paris, France |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | American, French |
| Period | 1993–present |
| Genre | Literary fiction |
| Literary movement | Postmodern |
| Website | |
| http://www.AmandaFilipacchi.com | |
Amanda Filipacchi (born 1967) (pronounced Fili-'pah-kee) is an American writer. She is the author of three novels. Her latest, Love Creeps, is optioned for a film.
Biography
Filipacchi was born in Paris, and was educated in France and the U.S. She is the daughter of former model Sondra Peterson and Daniel Filipacchi, chairman of Hachette Filipacchi Médias.[1] She has been living in New York since she was 17.
She began writing at age thirteen. She attended Hamilton College, where she graduated with a BA in Creative Writing. In 1990, Filipacchi enrolled in Columbia University’s MFA fiction writing program, where she wrote a master's thesis (its contents apparently shocking to some fellow students[1]) which also became her first published novel, Nude Men. She took a class with The New Yorker's fiction and poetry editor, Alice Quinn, on whose recommendation she signed with literary agent Melanie Jackson. In 1992, when Filipacchi was twenty-four years old and before her graduation, Jackson sold Nude Men to Nan Graham at Viking Press. The novel was translated into thirteen languages and was anthologized in The Best American Humor 1994 (published by Simon & Schuster 1994).[citation needed]
Filipacchi’s second and third novels, Vapor (1999) and Love Creeps (2005, a novel about obsessive love[2] and stalking[3]), were also translated into multiple languages. Following the Dutch-language publication of Love Creeps in late 2004, Filipacchi was invited to be the sole North American participant in the 2005 Saint Amour literary festival, a 10-city tour through Belgium (where Nude Men had been a number-one bestseller) that coincides with Valentine's Day.[citation needed] In November 2007, film rights to Love Creeps were optioned by Scope Invest (Geneviève Lemal at Scope Pictures), the company that produced "The Child" ("L'Enfant"), winner of the 2005 Cannes Palme d'Or Award. Love Creeps will be developed in collaboration with producers Alexandra Milchan and Aimée Peyronnet.[citation needed]
Reviewers have called Filipacchi “fearsomely witty,” and “a prodigious postfeminist talent.” She was hailed by The New York Times as a "lovely comic surrealist.” Her work has been compared to John Irving,[4] Nabokov, Muriel Spark, John Fante, Angela Carter, Lewis Carroll, Woody Allen, and Ann Beattie. Love Creeps was one of The Village Voice's top 25 books of the year.
Bibliography
- Nude Men (Viking/Penguin, 1993)
- Vapor (Carroll & Graf, 1999)
- Love Creeps (St. Martin's, 2005)
References
- ^ a b Hoban, Phoebe (14 January 1993). "Brief Lives: Skin Deep". New York Magazine. p. 30. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
- ^ Dupont, Pepita (4 July 2006). "Amanda Filipacchi: Deux Variations sur la Meme T'Aime". Paris Match (in French). Retrieved 27 April 2013.
- ^ "New & Recommended". Boston Globe. 19 June 2005. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
- ^ "The Independent (London) August 22, 1999". Archived from the original on May 21, 2008. Retrieved December 6, 2007.
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- Magic realism writers
- Hamilton College (New York) alumni
- Columbia University alumni
- 1967 births
- Living people
- Postmodern writers
- French novelists
- Writers from Paris
- French emigrants to the United States
- Naturalized citizens of the United States
- American humor novelists
- French women novelists
- American women novelists