Occupation Novelist Role Author Name Antoine Bello | Period 1996-present Nationality French, American Books The missing piece, Mateo | |
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Born 25 March 1970 (age 54)
Boston, Massachusetts ( 1970-03-25 ) Notable works The Missing Piece
Les Falsificateurs
Les Eclaireurs Notable awards Prix France Culture/Telerama | ||
Antoine Bello: "The Truth Does Not Exist" | Talks at Google
Antoine Bello (born 25 March 1970) is a French-American author born in Boston, Massachusetts, whose works have been widely translated. His novels touch on multiple subjects, such as the relation between reality and fiction, human cognition and journalism.
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Work
Bello's first book, Les Funambules (ISBN 2070745023), a collection of short stories, was published in France in 1996. It received the Prix littéraire de la vocation awarded by the Fondation Bleustein-Blanchet.
Since then, Bello's has published nine novels, which have been translated into a dozen languages, such as German, Russian, Greek and Japanese. Six of them are available in English : The Falsifiers (Kindle Edition, 2015), The Pathfinders (Kindle Edition, 2016), The Showrunners (Kindle Edition, 2017), An American Novel (Kindle Edition, 2016), The Disappearance of Emilie Brunet (Kindle Edition, 2016), and The Missing Piece (ISBN 0156013371).
Bello's main body of work, known as the Falsificateurs trilogy, centers around a secret international organization, the CFR, which falsifies reality and rewrites history. The first installment, Les Falsificateurs (The Falsifiers), was published in 2007. Les Éclaireurs (ISBN 2070124266) was awarded the prestigious Prix France Culture - Télérama award in 2009. Les Producteurs was released in 2015.
Prior career
Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Bello co-founded the French company Ubiqus. He sold it in 2007.