Dominique Bona
Dominique Bona (born July 29, 1953 in Perpignan , Pyrénées-Orientales , France ) is a French author.
Life
Bona went to school in Paris at the Lycée Victor-Duruy . She completed her studies at the Sorbonne in modern literature. From 1976 to 1980 she was an assistant at the public broadcasters France Culture and France Inter . From 1980 to 1985 she was a literary critic for the daily newspaper Le Quotidien de Paris before working as a critic for the newspaper Figaro littéraire from 1980 to 2004 .
Bona has been a member of the Prix Renaudot jury since 1999 . In 2013 she was chosen by the Académie française in competition with Philippe Meyer for the Fauteuil 33 by Michel Mohrt . Jean-Christophe Rufin gave her eulogy .
Prizes and awards
- 1987: Grand Prix de la biography de l'Académie française for the biography Romain Gary .
- 1989: the following prizes for the same biography: Les Yeux noirs ou "le vies extraordinaires des sœrs Hérédia" ; Grand Prix de la Femme , Prix de l'Enclave des Papes , Prix Lutèce and Prix des Poètes français .
- 1992: Prix Interallié for the novel Malika .
- 1998: Prix Renaudot for the novel Le Manuscrit de Port-Ébène .
- 2000: Prix Goncourt de la biographie and Prix Bernier de l'Académie des Beaux-Arts for Berthe Morisot : Le Sécret de la femme en noir .
- 2012: Prix spécial Simone-Veil for Deux sœrs: Yvonne et Christine Rouart, muses de l'impressionisme .
- 2013: Elected member of the Académie française for the Fauteuil 33.
Furthermore she is:
- Chevalier (Knight) of the Legion of Honor .
- Officer of the Ordre national du mérite
- Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Publications
- Les Heures volées. Novel. Mercure de France, Paris 1981.
- Argentina. Novel. Mercure de France, Paris 1984.
- Romain Gary , biography. Mercure de France, Paris 1987.
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Gala. Biography. Flammarion 1994.
- German: Gala. One life. translated by Una Pfau and Katrin Seebacher . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-596-17059-1 .
- Stefan Zweig , l'ami blessé. Biography. Plon, Paris 1996.
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Le Manuscrit de Port-Ébène. Novel. Grasset, Paris 1998.
- German: The sugar plantation . Goldmann, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-442-72701-4 .
- La Ville d'hiver. Novel. Grasset, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-246-63371-0 .
- Je suis fou de toi. Biography. Grasset, Paris 2014, ISBN 978-2-246-85387-9 .
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Camille et Paul: La Passion Claudel. Grasset, Paris 2006.
- German: Camille and Paul Claudel. Translated from the French by Eva Moldenhauer, btb, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-442-73996-7 .
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personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bona, Dominique |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1953 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Perpignan , Pyrénées-Orientales department , France |