Leïla Slimani

Leïla Slimani (2017)

Leïla Slimani (born October 3, 1981 in Rabat , Morocco ) is a French-Moroccan writer and journalist. In 2016 she was awarded the Prix ​​Goncourt for her novel Chanson douce .

life and work

Slimani is the middle three daughters of the economist Othman Slimani . She attended school in Rabat. In 1999 she went to Paris and studied media and politics at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and at ESCP Europe . After completing her studies, she attended the Cours Florent and briefly tried herself as an actress. She has worked as a journalist for Jeune Afrique magazine since 2008 , for which she reported on North African topics. In 2014 she published Dans le jardin de l'ogre, her first novel, which was awarded the Prix ​​de La Mamounia in Morocco . The psychological thriller Chanson douce followed two years later . With a circulation of more than 76,000 copies, it developed into a bestseller within two and a half months even before it was awarded the Prix Goncourt. A total of 600,000 copies were sold within a year of publication.

In 2017 in German-speaking countries, in addition to the German translation of Chanson douce (as Then you sleep too at Luchterhand), her short story Sleeping Beauty appeared in the anthology L'amour toujours - toujours l'amour? Young French love stories.

In 2018, Slimani was appointed by Emmanuel Macron to the International Organization of Frankofonie , an organization of 84 French-speaking countries that promotes the French language.

Works

• La Baie de Dakhla: itinérance enchantée entre mer et désert. Mallika Éditions, Casablanca 2013.
• In the jardin de l'ogre. Editions Gallimard, Paris 2014, ISBN 978-2-07-014623-9 .
  • Amelie Thoma (translator): To lose all of that. Luchterhand, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-630-87553-8 .
• Chanson douce. Editions Gallimard, Paris 2016.
  • Amelie Thoma (translator): Then you too sleep. Luchterhand, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-630-87554-5 .
• Le diable est in the details. Éditions de l'Aube, 2016, ISBN 978-2-815921442 .
• Sexe et Mensonges. La vie sexual au Maroc. Les Arènes, Paris 2017, ISBN 978-2-35204-568-7 .
  • Amelie Thoma (translator): Sex and lies. Conversations with women from the Islamic world. btb, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-442-71681-4 .
• Paroles d'honneur. Les Arènes, Paris 2017, ISBN 978-2-35204-654-7 .
  • Kerstin Behre (translator): Hand on heart. Illustrated by Laetitia Coryn . Avant, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-94503495-8 .
• Le pays des autres. Éditions Gallimard, Paris 2020, ISBN 978-2-07-289312-4 .

literature

• Lauren Collins: The Killer-Nanny Novel that Conquered France. The New Yorker, January 1, 2018
• Simon Kuper : "Knowing how to talk is a great power". Interview, in: Financial Times , April 21, 2018, p. L&A 10
• Silke Weber: Feminist author Leïla Slimani - A voice that has been missing for a long time Spiegel Online, September 18, 2018

Documentation

• Andreas Nickel, Mathias Schellenberg: Through the night with: Leïla Slimani and Kamel Daoud . Arte, November 5, 2017 (55 min.)
• Barbara Wahlster: Leila Slimani on the blue sofa . ZDF, October 13, 2017 (24 min.)

Web links

Commons : Leïla Slimani  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Leïla Slimani in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Leïla Slimani in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Short biography and reviews of works by Leïla Slimani at perlentaucher.de
• Leila Slimani in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Leïla Slimani: rencontre avec la romancière de l'ultramoderne solitude des femmes , interview, August 27, 2016, at Elle

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Alexandra Schwartzbrod: Leïla Slimani. «Madame Bovary X» Liberation, September 29, 2014.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Lauren Collins: The Killer-Nanny Novel That Conquered France , in: The New Yorker , January 1, 2018, accessed February 8, 2018
3. ↑ Most important French literary prize: Leïla Slimani awarded Prix Goncourt Spiegel Online, November 3, 2016.
4. ↑ Dark novel on female sex addiction wins prize in Morocco France 24, 29 September 2015.
5. ↑ Prix ​​Goncourt for Leïla Slimani ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Luzerner Zeitung, November 3, 2011. 
6. ↑ Benoit Morenne: Leïla Slimani Wins Prix Goncourt, France's Top Literary Award New York Times, November 3, 2016.
7. ↑ Review by Carola Ebeling: Never trust your babysitter zeit.de, 10 November 2017.
8. ↑ Übers .: Paula Rauhut, in: Annette Wassermann Ed .: Wagenbach, Berlin 2017, ISBN 9783803127761 , pp. 141–149.
9. ↑ Meredith Haaf: Leïla Slimani: "There is no morality in wanting". In: sueddeutsche.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung Digitale Medien GmbH, May 14, 2019, accessed on November 17, 2019 .