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Patrick Roegiers
Biography
Patrick Roegiers was born in Ixelles in 1947. Initially, he worked as a dramatist and theatre director, later becoming a literary and photography critic, after leaving Belgium for Paris when the subsidy for his theatre was cancelled. He has continued to direct plays and has also directed films for television as well as being active in photography. He has also curated many art and photography exhibitions. He has written numerous books on photography as well as novels and stories. In recent years, he has written on Belgium, in fiction, poetry and non-fiction. Sadly, apart from a catalogue of an exhibition on Magritte, his works have not been translated into English.
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Patrick Roegiers (in French)
Patrick Roegiers (in French)
Patrick Roegiers plagieur ? L’affaire se dégonfle (in French)
Bibliography
1978 Pauvre B …! (drama)
1979 Des trous dans les nuages suivi de Hamlet et les 7 nains (drama)
1982 Le Visage regardé ou Lewis Carroll, dessinateur et photographe
1985 Diane Arbus ou le Rêve du naufrage
1986 L’écart constant (stories)
1988 L’ oeil vivant: 52 critiques parues dans Le Monde 1985/1987 (photography criticism)
1990 Beau Regard (novel)
1990 Bill Brandt
1992 L’oeil multiple: 170 entretiens, portraits et critiques photographiques parus dans Le Monde de 1986 à 1991 (photography criticism)
1992 Façons de voir: douze entretiens sur le regard
1992 L’horloge universelle (novel)
1994 L’oeil complice: 25 préfaces sur la photographie de 1983 à1993 (photography criticism)
1995 Hémisphère nord (novel)
1996 La Promenade des Anglais
1997 L’Artiste, la Servante et le Savant, deux monologues
1997 Roland Topor : Une vie de papier
1998 La géométrie des sentiments (novel)
1992 L’oeil ouvert: un parcours photographique 1983-1998 (photography criticism)
2001 L’Oculiste noyé (stories)
2002 Tripp (novel)
2003 Le mal du pays, autobiographie de la Belgique
2003 La Belgique en vers et contre tout: poèmes macaroniques
2003 Jacques Henri Lartigue: les tourments du funambule: dessin, peinture et photographie
2004 Fragments d’une histoire contemporaine (photography)
2005 La Belgique. Le Roman d’un pays
2005 Le Cousin de Fragonard (novel)
2005 Magritte et la photographie (Magritte and Photography)
2006 Le cri de la muette: Poème symphonique
2007 La Spectaculaire Histoire des rois des Belges (novel)
2008 Le journal d’Aurore (novel)
2010 La nuit du monde (novel)
2011 La femme de l’homme au chapeau boule (drama)
2012 Le Bonheur des Belges [The Happiness of the Belgians] (novel)
2014 La traversée des plaisirs: escapade littéraire (literature)
2015 L’autre Simenon (novel)
2017 La spectaculaire histoire des rois des Belges (history)
2018 Le roi, Donald Duck et les vacances du dessinateur (novel)
2019 Éloge du génie, Vilhelm Hammershoi, Glenn Gould, Thomas Bernhard (biography)
2020 La vie de famille (novel)
2021 Ma vie d’écrivain (novel)