Discipline: Literature – fiction

Marc Weitzmann

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Paris, FRANCE
MacDowell Fellowships: 2003

Marc Weitzmann is a French journalist and novelist. He is the former editor-in-chief of Les Inrockuptibles, and the author of ten books.

After working for the social services in France, Weitzmann began a career as a journalist. He became literary editor of Les Inrockuptibles in 1996, and eventually its editor-in-chief. More recently, he has written about antisemitism in France in Tablet.

Weitzmann is the author of ten books, including seven novels. His books are about his relationship with his father, as well as societal topics like globalization, terrorism, identity politics, and social atomization. His second novel, Chaos, was an autofiction about his cousin Serge Doubrovsky.

At MacDowell, he continued work on a work in progress, entitled Une Place Dans Le Monde (A Place in the World), a three part novel set in Paris and Tel-Aviv that explores themes of identity.

Studios

Garland

Marc Weitzmann worked in the Garland studio.

Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…

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