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'''Marie Redonnet''' (born 1948, Paris) is a French writer of poems, novels, essays, short stories, and plays. Her works have been translated into eleven languages.<ref name=taylor/><ref name="Leaping Dog">{{cite web|title=Marie Redonnet|url=http://www.leapingdogpress.com/authors/marie-redonnet|publisher=Leaping Dog Press|accessdate=15 November 2014}}</ref> |
'''Marie Redonnet''' is the nom de plume of '''Martine L'hospitalier'' (born 1948, Paris) who is a French writer of poems, novels, essays, short stories, and plays. Her works have been translated into eleven languages.<ref name=taylor/><ref name="Leaping Dog">{{cite web|title=Marie Redonnet|url=http://www.leapingdogpress.com/authors/marie-redonnet|publisher=Leaping Dog Press|accessdate=15 November 2014}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 21:09, 1 December 2014
'Marie Redonnet is the nom de plume of Martine L'hospitalier (born 1948, Paris) who is a French writer of poems, novels, essays, short stories, and plays. Her works have been translated into eleven languages.[1][2]
Biography
Redonnet was born with the name Martine L'hospitalier in 1948, her mother's birth name was Redonnet. She studied literature, particularly Jean Genet,[3] and she became a teacher[4] and began writing in the late 1970s.[5] Her first published work was Le Mort & Cie, a collection of poems released in 1985. The following year, she published a collection of short stories entitled Doublures. She followed that with a trilogy of novels: Splendid Hôtel (1986), Forever Valley, and Rose Mélie Rose (1987).[1]
Redonnet has taught at the Université de la Sorbonne-Nouvelle. From 1995 to 1997, she was responsible for the research of art and language at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique. From 2000 to 2004, she was an advisor for literature at the French embassy in Morocco.[6]
In sparse prose that some have compared to Samuel Beckett,[5]
Redennet and her son are based in Morocco.[3]
Selected works
Novels
- Candy Story (1992)
- Nevermore (1994)[1]
Short stories
- Silsie (1990)[1]
Plays
- Tir & Lir (1988)
- Mobie-Diq (1989)
- Seaside (1991)
- Le Cirque Pandor and Fort Gambo (1991)[4]
References
- ^ a b c d Taylor, John (2005). Paths to Contemporary French Literature. Vol. Volume 1. pp. 214–16. ISBN 1412804795.
{{cite book}}:|volume=has extra text (help)> - ^ "Marie Redonnet". Leaping Dog Press. Retrieved 15 November 2014.
- ^ a b Marie Redonnet, TheModernNovel, retrieved 1 December 2014
- ^ a b Redonnet, Marie (1996). Nevermore. ISBN 0803239122.
- ^ a b Hughes, Alexandra; Reader, Keith A (2002). Encyclopaedia of Contemporary French Culture. p. 454. ISBN 1134788665.
- ^ "L'invité de la médiathèque : Marie Redonnet". Ville de Fontenay-le-Comtte.