Malzieu, Mathias
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1974- ) French singer – he is lead singer of the French band Dionysos – and author whose novel, La mécanique du coeur (2007; trans Sarah Ardizzone as The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart 2009), is fantasticated out of Steampunk tropes: an infant, born in Scotland in 1874 in savagely cold weather, has a frozen heart, which is replaced on the spot by a cuckoo clock. When he reaches adolescence, romantic love upsets his ticker. [JC]
Mathias Malzieu
born Montpelier, France: 16 April 1974
works
- La mécanique du coeur (Paris: Flammarion, 2007) [pb/]
- The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (London: Chatto and Windus, 2009) [trans by Sarah Ardizzone of the above: hb/]
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