Dominique Bona

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.
• 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.
• 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 .
• 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 .

Web links

• Biography of Dominique Bona (fr.)