Françoise Mallet-Joris

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Françoise Mallet-Joris in 1988

Françoise Mallet-Joris , pseudonym of Françoise Lilar (born July 6, 1930 in Antwerp , Belgium ; died August 13, 2016 in Bry-sur-Marne , France ), was a Belgian-French writer .

Life

Françoise Lilars father was the Belgian politician Albert Lilar (1900–1976); her mother Suzanne Lilar (1901–1992) was a lawyer and writer, her sister Marie Fredericq-Lilar worked as a historian. Mallet-Joris was married three times: relatively briefly with the writer Robert Amadou , through whom she received French citizenship, also with the sociologist Alain Joxe and longer with the painter Jacques Delfau. She had four children from these marriages, for whom she was responsible. From 1970 to 1981 she lived in a partnership with the singer Marie-Paule Belle .

Her first novel Le Rempart des Béguines - which she published in 1951 under the pseudonym Mallet, which she later added to Mallet-Joris - sparked a scandal; the novel was published in German in 1957 under the title Der dunkle Morgen . In 1957 she received the Prix ​​des Libraires for Les Mensonges , in 1958 the Prix ​​Femina for L'Empire céleste , on whose jury she sat from 1969 to 1971, and in 1965 the Prix Prince-Pierre-de-Monaco for Marie Mancini .

In 1971 she became a member of the Académie Goncourt , and in 2011 she retired due to old age. As her mother's successor, she became a member of the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique .

Mallet-Joris wrote novels, essays for magazines and ghostwriting as well as chanson texts for Isabelle Aubret and Édith Butler , in which she was not mentioned as a lyricist. Her long-term collaboration with the singer and composer Marie-Paule Belle resulted in an opera project in 1990, which was never performed.

Mallet-Joris died in August 2016 at the age of 86.

Works (selection)

  • Le rempart des Béguines . Julliard, 1951
    • The dark morning: Roman . Translation of Walter Hilsbecher. Ullstein, Berlin 1957, DNB 453192149 .
  • La chambre rouge . Julliard, 1955
  • Cordelia . Short stories. Julliard, 1958
  • Les Mensonges . Julliard, 1956
    • The lying: Roman . Translation of Lotte Frauendienst. Ullstein, Berlin 1959, DNB 453192122 .
  • L'Empire Celeste . Julliard, 1958
    • At Socrates on Montparnasse: Roman . Translation of Lotte Frauendienst. Ullstein, Berlin 1961
  • Les Personnages . Novel. Julliard, 1961
    • The favorite: Roman . Translation by Edith Bauer. Ullstein, Berlin a. a. 1963, DNB 453192130 .
  • Lettre à moi-même . Essay. Julliard, 1963
  • Marie Mancini , Le premier amour de Louis XIV . Biography. Julliard, 1965
  • Les signes et les prodiges . Grasset, 1966
  • Trois âges de la nuit: histoires de sorcellerie . Grasset, 1968
  • La maison de paper . Grasset, 1970
    • My house has no walls: declaration of love to an untamed family . Translation of Sylvia List . Piper, Munich 1971; dtv, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-423-00967-5 .
  • Le jeu du souterrain . Grasset, 1973
  • Les Feuilles mortes d'un bel été . 1973 illustrations by Catherine Loeb. Grasset, 1973
  • J'aurais voulu jouer de l'accordéon essay. Julliard, 1975
  • Allegra . Grasset, 1976
    • The young Allegra: novel . Translation by Susanne Kaiser. List, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-471-78141-2 .
  • Jeanne Guyon . Biography. Flammarion, 1978
  • Dickie-Roi . Grasset, 1979
  • Un chagrin d'amour et d'ailleurs . Grasset, 1981
  • Le Clin d'œil de l'ange . Gallimard, 1983
  • Le rire de Laura . Gallimard, 1985
  • La Tristesse du cerf-volant . Flammarion, 1988
  • Adriana Sposa . Flammarion, 1990
  • Divine . Flammarion, 1991
  • Les larmes ou la veritable histoire d'un buste en cire, de deux filles, lúne triste, láutre gaie, dún prince et dún bourreau . Flammarion, 1993
    • The wax artist or the true story of a wax bust, two girls, one sad, the other happy, a prince and an executioner, in which one will search in vain for superfluous moral sermons: a novel . Translation by Annette Lallemand. List, Munich 1998; as paperback: LIst, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-548-60421-3 .
  • La Maison dont le chien est fou . Flammarion-Plon, 1997
  • Sept demons in the ville . Plon, 1999
  • La Double Confidence . Plon, 2000
  • Portrait d'un enfant non identifié . Grasset, 2005
  • Ni vous sans moi, ni moi sans vous… . Grasset, 2007

literature

  • Susan Petit: Françoise Mallet-Joris (= Collection Monographique Rodopi En Littérature Française Contemporaine ). Rodopi, Amsterdam 2001 ISBN 90-420-1216-1 (English).

Web links

Commons : Françoise Mallet-Joris  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Susan Petit: Françoise Mallet-Joris , 2001, p. 10
  2. ^ Susan Petit: Françoise Mallet-Joris , 2001, p. 7
  3. ↑ Jürg Altwegg : The miracle of writing . Obituary in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 16, 2016, p. 15.
personal data
SURNAME Mallet-Joris, Françoise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lilar, Françoise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian-French writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 2016
Place of death Bry-sur-Marne , France