Alain Defossé
Alain Defossé was a French novelist and translator.Early life
Alain Defossé was born on 11 February 1957 in Nantes. He studied at the Cours Florent.Career
Defossé authored nine novels. His first novel, Les fourmis d'Anvers, was published in 1991. He also translated several books from English into French. For example, he translated Crazy Cock by Henry Miller in 1990. He also translated American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis in 1993. In 2006, he translated The Night Watch by Sarah Waters. Two years later, in 2008, he translated Rant by Chuck Palahniuk. Other novelists whose work he translated are Irvine Welsh and Joseph Connolly.Death
Defossé died on 14 May 2017 in Paris.Works
Novels
