Biography

Adrien Goetz was born in 1966 in Caen. PhD in Art History, he worked at various capacities in the field of media art: L'Oeil, Fine Arts Magazine... His novels are marked by artistic adventure: La Dormeuse de Naples(2004, Prix des Deux Magots and Roger Nimier) tells the imaginary adventures of an authentic lost masterpiece by Ingres in 1815, while Une Petite légende dorée (2005) seeks to reconstruct a picture of Siena Renaissance.

Adrien Goetz has published an Intrigue à l'anglaise (Grasset 2007). "How can you reunite in an enigma around 3 meters of missing linen of a Bayeux Tapestry, a young curator with a predestined name to look after the tapestry Penelope, her boyfriend, a young" bobo "from the Place des Vosges, an old aristocrat living on an island, a local journalist, a sort of "Columbo du bocage"? Without mentionning the more or less unusual presence of, Princess Diana and her lover Dodi, the Duke of Windsor and his wife Wallis, and for good measure, Vivant Denon and a few other historical figures? (...) From a lively demonstration and scholarly comic dialogue and even dangerous; incidentally, an allusion to two of his previous books, La Dormeuse de Naples and A bas la nuit !, Adrien Goetz builds his story without stumbling, surfing with joy, light and casual,with a solid knowledge.Is he leading his reader on? Is he playing cleverly on the various meanings of the word "embroidery" in French? Is he winding a crazy story on this embroidery? It would be a lot to say rather than to take the risk of stating, to decide, unless you know as much as him on the famous tapestry, which tells the latest episodes of the story of Guillaume le bâtard, conqueror of England. But where is really the missing piece ? Maybe in the next book by Adrien Goetz." (J. Savigneau, The World of Books
May 10, 2007)