Chantal Chawaf

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Chantal Chawaf

Chantal Chawaf (born November 15, 1943 in Paris ) is a French writer .

She studied literature and art history before settling in the Middle East for a few years. On her return in 1974 she began to publish her first works in the "Edition des femmes" founded by one of the founders of the women's movement in France, Antoinette Fouque .

Chantal Chawaf's first novel “Retable. La rêverie ”already shows her very personal writing style, which will later be associated with the“ Ecriture féminine ”movement. Other books from this period are “Cercoeur” (1975) and “Maternité” (1979).

In her work, Chantal Chawaf examines topics such as the relationship between mother and daughter and couple relationships. She has traveled to the United States where she is translated and read in universities. She is the author of several novels and several plays and essays. She also runs a collection.

bibliography

Novels

  • Retable. La rêverie . 1974, Editions des femmes.
  • Cercœur . 1975, Mercure de France.
  • Chair chaude (théâtre). 1976, Mercure de France.
  • Blé de semence . 1976, Mercure de France.
  • Le Soleil et la Terre . 1977, Editions Jean-Jacques Pauvert.
  • Rougeâtre . 1978, Editions Jean-Jacques Pauvert.
  • Maternity . 1979, Editions Stock.
  • Country . 1980, Editions Stock.
  • Crépusculaires . 1981, Editions Ramsay.
  • Les surfaces de l'orage . 1982, Editions Ramsay.
  • La Vallée incarnate . 1984, Editions Flammarion.
  • Elwina, le roman fée . 1985, Editions Flammarion.
  • Fées de toujours (with Jinane Chawaf). 1987, Editions Plon.
  • L'intérieur des heures . 1987, Editions des femmes.
  • Rédemption . 1988, Editions Flammarion.
  • L'éclaircie . 1990, Editions Flammarion.
  • Vers la lumière . 1994, Editions des femmes.
  • Le Manteau noir . 1998, Editions Flammarion.
  • Issa . 1999, Editions Flammarion.
  • Under the pseudonym Marie de la Montluel: Mélusine des détritus . 2002, Editions du Rocher.
  • L'Ombre . 2004, Editions du Rocher.
  • La Sanction . 2004, Editions des Femmes.
  • Sable noir . 2005, Editions du Rocher.
  • Infra-moons . 2005, Editions des Femmes.
  • Les Obscures , 2008, Editions des Femmes
  • Je suis née , 2010, Editions des Femmes, new form for "Le Manteau noir"
  • Syria, le désert d'une passion , 2012, Editions Ixcea
  • Délivrance brisée , 2013, Éditions de la Grande Ourse
  • Ne quitte pas les vivants , 2015, Éditions Des femmes - Antoinette Fouque
  • L'inconnue du désir , 2017, Éditions de la Grande Ourse

Other works

  • Le corps et le verbe, la langue en sens inverse ( essay ). 1992, Presses de la Renaissance.
  • L'Erotique des mots with Régine Deforges , 2004, Editions du Rocher.
  • L'Identité inachevée with Adonis , 2004, Editions du Rocher

translation

  • Redemption translated by Monique F. Nagem. 1992, Dalkey Archive Press.
  • Mother Love, Mother Earth translated by MF Nagem. 1993, Garland Publishing.
  • Warmth: a blood song . In: Plays by French and Francophone Women translated by CP Makward and JG Miller. 1994, University of Michigan Press, pp. 233-246.
  • Fées de Toujours with Jinane Chawaf, translated into Arabic by Samia Esber. 2000, Syria Culture Ministry, Damascus

Secondary literature

  • Marianne Bosshard: Chantal Chawaf . Rodopi, 1999 ISBN 978-90-420-0625-6
  • Catherine Rodgers: Gender . In: Malcolm Cook, Grace Davie (eds.): Modern France: Society in Transition . Routledge, 1999
  • Monique Saigal: Écriture: Lien de mère à fille chez Jeanne Hyvrard, Chantal Chawaf et Annie Ernaux . Rodopi, 2000
  • Kathryn Robson: The female vampire: Chantal Chawaf's melancholic autofiction . In: Gill Rye & Michael Worton (Eds.): Women's writing in contemporary France: New Writers, New Literatures in the 1990s . Manchester University Press, 2002
  • David Coward: History of French Literature: From Chanson de Geste to Cinema . Blackwell, 2003
  • Vicki Mistacco: Les Femmes et la tradition littéraire- 2eme partie . Yale University Pr, 2006
  • Frédérique Chevillot. Anna Norris, Des Femmes écrivent la guerre , Editions complicité, 2007
  • Collectif: Génération MLF 1968-2008 . Ed. des Femmes-Antoinette Fouque, 2008
  • Jonathan Krell: Mélusine des Détritus ou les cris de la terre , in "Ecriture et réécriture du merveilleux féerique", conducted by Matthew Morris and Jean-Jacques Vincensini. Classiques Garnier, Paris 2012, pp. 245-254

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personal data
SURNAME Chawaf, Chantal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris