Marie Cardinal

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Marie Cardinal , with full name Simone Odette Marie Thérese Cardinal (born March 3, 1928 or 1929 in Algiers , then France ; † May 9, 2001 in Valréas , Vaucluse department , France), was a French writer, journalist, screenwriter and actress.

Life

Cardinal was born into a wealthy French pied noir family that had lived in the settlement colony of Algeria since 1836 . The parents divorced shortly after she was born, and she was taken into the care of her mother. After graduating from Catholic schools, she went to study philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris . Her thesis dealt with Philo of Alexandria .

In 1953 Cardinal married the French director and theater comedian Jean-Pierre Ronfard . The couple went abroad until 1960, where Cardinal worked as a philosophy teacher at the French schools in Thessaloniki , Lisbon , Vienna and Montréal in Canada . The couple's three children were born in Algiers and Lisbon.

1967 Cardinal worked on the film Two or Three Things I Know About Her by Jean-Luc Godard with and took a role in the film Mouchette of Bresson . In 1969 she moved with the children to Paris while her husband stayed in Canada. In order to earn a living, she subsequently worked as a journalist with articles for L'Express and Elle, among others .

Since her first novel, published in 1962, Cardinal has written other works that, however, did not meet the tastes of the intellectuals of the time. However, they were widely accepted and widely read by the general public.

Prizes and awards

  • 1962: Prix ​​international du premier roman for Écoutez la mer
  • 1976: Prix ​​Littré for Les mots pour le dire

Publications

  • Écoutez la mer. Novel. Press Pocket, Paris 1962.
  • La clé sur la porte. Novel. Grasset, Paris 1972, OCLC 2477519 .
    • German: The key is under the mat . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1980, ISBN 3-499-14557-X .
  • Les mots pour le dire. Novel. Grasset, Paris 1975, ISBN 2-246-00211-7 .
    • German translation by Gabriele Forberg and Asma El Moutei Semler: Schattenmund. Rogner and Bernhard, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-8077-0070-6 .
  • Autrement dit . 1977.
  • Une vie pour deux . 1978.
  • Au pays de mes racines . Éditions Grasset & Fasquelles, Paris 1980.
    • German translation by Andrea Spingler: The trip to Algeria or In the garden of my childhood. (= new woman). Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1985, ISBN 3-499-15655-5 .
  • Le passé empiété . B. Grasset, Paris 1983, ISBN 2-246-28681-6 .
  • Preface, translation: La Médée d'Euripide. (Medea from Euripides). Grasset, Paris 1987, ISBN 2-246-39001-X .
  • Les Grands Désordres . 1987.
  • Les Pieds-Noirs , 1988.
  • Les jeudis de Charles et de Lulu. Librairie Générale Francaise, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-253-13617-4 .
  • L'inédit. Anika Parence Éditeur, Paris 2012, ISBN 978-2-923830-09-4 . (posthumously)

Film adaptations

  • 1983: Les Mots pour le dire ; Director: José Pinheiro

biography

  • Texts in German, English and French: Marie Cardenal: New Perspectives. Lang, Oxford / Bern / Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-03910-544-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Cardinal, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cardinal, Simone Odette Marie-Thérèse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer, journalist, screenwriter and actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1928 or March 3, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Algiers , then France , now Algeria
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 2001
Place of death Valréas , France