Jérôme Ferrari (born 1968 inParis) is a French writer and translator. He won the 2012Prix Goncourt for his novelLe Sermon sur la chute de Rome (The Sermon on the Fall of Rome).

Ferrari has lived inCorsica and taught philosophy at theLycée international Alexandre-Dumas inAlgiers for several years, then at the Lycée Fesch of Ajaccio.

He was a professor of philosophy at the French School ofAbu Dhabi until 2015.

Several of his novels have been translated into English, includingWhere I Left My Soul (2012), which is "set in the mid-1950s during the Algerian war, looking backwards to the second world war and the French defeat in Indochina, and forwards to the collapse in 1958 of the Fourth Republic."^[1]

Most recently, his novelIn His Own Image was published in English translation by Europa Editions.

• 2002Aleph zéro
• 2007 Dans le secret
• 2008Balco Atlantico (English translation:Balco Atlantico, 2019)
• 2009Un dieu un animal
• 2012Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome (English translation:The Sermon on the Fall of Rome, 2014)
• 2010Où j'ai laissé mon âme (English translation:Where I Left My Soul, 2012)
• 2015Le Principe (English translation:The Principle, 2016)
• 2018A son image (English translation:In His Own Image, 2022)

• 2009Prix Landerneau,Un dieu un animal^[2]
• 2010Grand Prix Poncetton,Où j'ai laissé mon âme^[3]
• 2010Prix Roman France Télévisions,Où j'ai laissé mon âme^[4]
• 2012Prix Goncourt,Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome^[5]

• 1968 births
• Living people
• Writers from Paris
• 20th-century French novelists
• 21st-century French novelists
• French schoolteachers
• Prix Goncourt winners
• French male novelists
• 20th-century French male writers
• 21st-century French male writers
• French translators
• Emirati schoolteachers

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