Emmanuel Carrère

Emmanuel Carrère is a French writer, screenwriter, and film director.

His mother was the well-known Sovietologist Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, née Zourabichvili, from a family of Georgian émigrés. He is a cousin of the noted American journalist Paul Khlebnikov.

Emmanuel graduated from the Paris Institute of Political Studies. He began as a film critic for magazines; his first book was devoted to the life and work of Werner Herzog (1982).

He was a member of the jury at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. He is the author of novels (the novel Horseshoe / Winter Camp in the Mountains, 1995, won the Prix Femina and was adapted by Claude Miller in 1998; the film received the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize), and several collections of stories. He published fictionalized biographies of Philip K. Dick (1993) and Eduard Limonov (2011, Prix Renaudot).

As a screenwriter and director, he works in film and television.