François Angelier is a French

France

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 journalist, presenter, essayist, biographer and author of fantasy

Fantasy

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 novel

Novel

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Biography

Angelier's early discovery of Owen, Claude Seignolle

Claude Seignolle

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, Ghelderode, Kubin

Kubin

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, Meyrink

Meyrink

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 and especially Jean Ray fired his interest in mauvais genres. After studying in Paris

Paris

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 and a short time with a theatre troupe, Angelier made his radio debut in 1981 with a programme on H.P.Lovecraft. With Emmanuel Laurentin and Jean-Christophe Ogier, he launched Bande à Parte on the French radio station France Culture

France Culture

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 in summer 1991—a programme dedicated to fantasy, fiction and comic books.

Anthologies

• La Nuit (Éd. J. Million, 1995)
• La Salette : apocalypse, pèlerinage et littérature (1856-1996) (Éd. J. Million, 2000, with Claude Langlois).

Essays, Biographies

• Le Drageoir aux épines ou l'intime souffrance de Joris-Karl Huysmans
  Joris-Karl Huysmans
  Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans was a French novelist who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans . He is most famous for the novel À rebours...
  
  (1993) ;
• Saint François de Sales ou Monsieur des abeilles (Pygmalion "Chemins d’éternité", 1997) ;
• Paul Claudel : chemins d'éternité (Pygmalion "Chemins d’éternité", 2001) ;
• Claudel ou la conversion sauvage (Salvator "Juste un débat", 2003) ;
• Dictionnaire Jules Verne (Pygmalion, 2006).

External links

Site de l'émission Mauvais Genres sur France Culture F. Angelier sur le site etonnants-voyageurs