Florence Delay

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Florence Delay (2009)

Florence Delay (born March 19, 1941 in Paris ) is a French writer , actress and translator who has been a member of the Académie française since 2000 .

Life

Studies and acting

Florence Delay, daughter of the neurologist , psychiatrist and writer Jean Delay , who was also a member of the Académie française between 1959 and 1987, studied Iberological Philology at the University of Paris after attending the Lycée Jean-de-La-Fontaine .

During her studies she worked as an actress and played under the maiden name of her mother (Florence Carrez) in 1962 the leading role of Joan of Arc in the film Procès de Jeanne d'Arc by Robert Bresson . The film was one of the competition entries at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1962 . She later played a few other roles in films by such directors as Chris Marker , Hugo Santiago , Benoît Jacquot and Michel Deville .

In addition to her studies, she was also an acting student at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier , one of the three theaters of the Comédie-Française and assistant director to Jean Vilar at the Avignon Festival, which was founded in 1947 . In addition, she was Georges Wilson's assistant at the Théâtre National Populaire between 1963 and 1964 .

After completing her studies, she worked as a university lecturer in general literature and comparative literature at the University of Paris III .

Writer, translator and essayist

In 1973 she published her first Bildungsroman, Minuit sur les jeux . Florence Delay, who wrote a column on stage works for the literary magazine Nouvelle Revue Française between 1978 and 1985 , was also a member of the jury for the Prix ​​Femina from 1978 to 1982 and from 1978 to 1995 a member of the editorial board of the literary magazine Critique, founded in 1946 by Georges Bataille . In addition, from 1979 to 1987 she was a member of the editing department of the publishing house Éditions Gallimard , where many of her own works were published.

In 1983 she received the Prix Femina literary prize for her novel Riche et légère (1983). After Petites formes en prose après Edison (1987) she wrote essays as well as novels .

In addition to her literary work, she continued to occupy herself with the theater and with Spain . She became known in particular for her translations of Spanish classics such as the tragic comedy La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas , which was staged by Antoine Vitez in 1989 and again by Christian Schiaretti in 2011 at the Théâtre National Populaire . Her other translations included works by Pedro Calderón de la Barca and Lope de Vega , all of which have found their way into the repertoire of the Comédie-Française .

For Etxemendi (1990) she was awarded the Prix ​​François Mauriac . In 1999 she received both the Grand Prize for Novels of the City of Paris and the Prize for Essays from the Académie Française for the essay Dit Nerval (1999).

Together with Jacques Roubaud she wrote in 2005 the ten-part cycle théâtre Graal , which refers to the Matter of Britain relates, an exploration of the Artus - legends .

On December 14, 2010, Florence Delay was elected a member of the Académie française, where she took the tenth armchair ( armchair 10 ) as the successor to Jean Guitton .

In addition, she has received several awards, including the Officer's Cross of the Legion of Honor and the Ordre national du Mérite and is also commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres .

Publications

Novels, plays and essays

  • Minuit sur les jeux , 1973
  • Le aïe aïe de la corne de brume , 1975
  • L'Insuccès de la fête , 1980
  • Acte de la Passion , 1983
  • Riche et légère , 1983
  • Marco Polo, le nouveau livre des merveilles , 1985
  • Course d'amour pendant le deuil , 1986
  • Petites formes en prose après Edison , 1986
  • Il me semble, mesdames ou Les Dames de Fontainebleau , 1987
  • La sortie au jour , 1987
  • Partition rouge. Poèmes et chants des Indiens d'Amérique du Nord , co-author Jacques Roubaud, 1988
  • L'Hexaméron , co-authors Michel Chaillou , Michel Deguy , Natacha Michel , Denis Roche , Jacques Roubaud, 1990
  • Etxemendi , 1990
  • Semaines de Suzanne , collection, co-authors Patrick Deville , Jean Echenoz , Sonja Greenlee , Harry Mathew , Mark Polizzotti , Olivier Rolin , 1990
  • Catalina, enquête , 1994
  • Œillet rouge sur le sable , 1994
  • La Fin des temps ordinaires , 1996
  • La Séduction brève , 1997
  • Dit Nerval , Essay, 1999
  • Michée, Aggée, Zacharie, Malachie , co-authors Maurice Roger and Arnaud Sérandour , 2001
  • L'Évangile de Jean, Trois lettres de Jean , co-author Alain Marchadour , 2001
  • Graal théâtre. Joseph d'Arimathie, Merlin l'enchanteur, Gauvain et le Chevalier Vert, Perceval le Gallois, Lancelot du Lac, l'Enlèvement de la reine, Morgane contre Guenièvre, Fin des Temps Aventureux, Galaad ou la Quête, La tragédie du roi Arthur , Co-author Jacques Roubaud, 2005
  • Mon Espagne or et Ciel , 2008
  • Mes cendriers , 2010
  • Il me semble, Mesdames , 2012

Translations

Filmography

actress

  • 1962: Procès de Jeanne d'Arc
  • 1969: Le jouet criminel (short film)
  • 1975: Mort de Raymond Roussel (short film)
  • 1979: Collections privées (narrator)
  • 1979: Écoute voir ...
  • 1983: Sans Soleil - Invisible Sun (documentary, narrator)

scriptwriter

  • 1981: Les ailes de la colombe
  • 1981: Eaux profondes
  • 1996: Los años Arruza

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personal data
SURNAME Delay, Florence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer, actress and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris