Elisabeth Barber

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Elisabeth Barbier is the pseudonym of the French writer Renée Guérin (born April 25, 1911 in Nîmes , † February 19, 1996 in Avignon ).

Life

Elisabeth Barbier comes from a mother from Arles and a father from Nîmes and lived with her parents in Paris , from where the family regularly drove to their region of origin in southern France in the summer. After studying humanities and law, she also studied psychology with Georges Dumas and André Ombredane. She was particularly interested in the theater going on around the actor Sacha Pitoëff .

In 1935 she married the doctor Raymond Barbier († 1942) from Avignon. In this city she led an acting company and was involved in the founding of the Festival d'Avignon in 1947. She worked with the festival director Jean Vilar and wrote the festival chronicle for years.

In addition to her theater career, Elisabeth Barbier published several writings, of which Les Gens de Mogador is the best known. The work deals with the story of a family who lived on the imaginary Mogador estate near Avignon, apparently inspired by events in the Château du Martinet near Carpentras .

In 1947 she was honored with the Prix ​​du Renouveau français for her work Les Gens de Mogador , which was awarded by the Association of French-speaking Catholic Writers. In 1958 Elisabeth Barbier was elected to the jury of the French literary prize Prix ​​Femina . She was friends with Isabelle Rivière, Marguerite Yourcenar and Pierre Boulle , among others .

The grave of the writer, who died in 1996, is in the Protestant cemetery in Nîmes.

Works

  • Les Gens de Mogador. 6 volumes, 1947 (translation into German by Lotte von Schaukal )
  • Ni le jour ni l'heure. 1949.
  • Serre Paradis. 1958.
  • Mon Père ce héros. 1958.

Web links

literature

  • Serge Roux: Élisabeth Barbier: la dernière des gens de Mogador. Pont-Saint-Esprit 1995, ISBN 2-909282-38-4 .
  • Serge Velay (Red.): Petit dictionnaire des écrivains du Gard. Nîmes 2009, p. 24.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elisabeth Barbier's grave in Nimes
personal data
SURNAME Barber, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guérin, Renée (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Nîmes
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1996
Place of death Avignon