Daeninckx, Didier

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Name
Daeninckx, Didier Gender: M
Didier Fernand Daeninckx
born on 27 April 1949 at 14:45 (= 2:45 PM )
Place Saint Denis, France, 48n56, 2e22
Timezone MET h1e (is standard time)
Data source
BC/BR in hand
Rodden Rating AA
Collector: Geslain
Astrology data s_su.18.gif s_taucol.18.gif 06°58' s_mo.18.gif s_aricol.18.gif 28°32 Asc.s_vircol.18.gif 10°59'



Didier Daeninckx (at Fête de l'Humanité 2006)
photo: User:Fred.th, license gfdl

Biography

French author and left-wing politician of Belgian descent, best known for his romans noirs.

He frequently uses fictional settings to transport social critique; his writings are characterized by a sobering social realism. An anti-fascist, he has also written on the Alsace Soviet Republic, on eugenicist Alexis Carrel, on Holocaust denial, etc.

In his book Le Goût de la vérité (1996), he accuses the Ras l'front cofounder Gilles Perrault of being "fascist".

In July 2001, the left-wing weekly Politis denounced Daeninckx as "using Stalin's methods".

He contributes to the website Amnistia.net in which wrote many former members of Red Brigades (such as Enrico Porsia or Corrado Balocco).

Daeninckx won the Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle (2012) for L'Espoir en contrebande.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Source Notes

Didier Geslain archive, 'romans noirs (religion3)' pdf file, p. 35.

Categories

  • Vocation : Politics : Other Politics
  • Vocation : Writers : Fiction (Novelist)