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Lacamp in 2009

Ysabelle Lacamp (7 November 1954 – 26 June 2023) was a French novelist, singer and actress.[1]

Biography

Early life and education

Ysabelle Lacamp was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 7 November 1954. She was the daughter of French journalist and writer Max Olivier-Lacamp (prix Renaudot 1969) and Pyong-You Hyun of Korean origin.

Lacamp received a degree in Chinese and Korean from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and in Oriental languages from Paris.

Career

Lacamp started as an actress in 1975, first appearing in the cinema in the second part of the film Emmanuelle. She played notably in 1983 in Le Marginal by Jacques Deray with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Le Joli Cœur with Francis Perrin. On television, she appeared in episodes of the series Les Enquêtes du Commissaire Maigret, Les Cinq Dernières Minutes and in 2002 in Fabio Montale, with Alain Delon.

Throughout her roles, she was credited as Isabelle Olivier Lacamp, Isabelle Lacamp, Isabelle Olivier-Lacamp, Isa Lacamp. She also practiced in the dubbing of television series.

In 1987, she released a 45 rpm entitled Baby Bop.[citation needed]

Lacamp presented the cultural program Hors la ville on France 3 Limousin Poitou-Charentes for three years and for seven years co-organized the literary meetings of Ajaccio “Racines du ciel”.

Lacamp is best known as a writer, publishing bestselling novels. She released her first novel in 1986, Le Baiser du dragon.

Lacamp was a member of the jury for the Jean-Jacques-Rousseau Prize for autobiography.[citation needed]

Death

Lacamp died from cancer in Paris, on 26 June 2023, at the age of 68.[2]

Prizes

In 2003, she won the Cabri d'or from the Académie cévenole.

Publications

  • The Kiss of the Dragon, Lattes, 1986
  • The Girl from Heaven, Albin Michel, 1988
  • Spring Snow, co-written with Jean-Marie Galliand Albin Michel, 1988
  • The Blue Elephant, Albin Michel, 1990
  • Prunus flower in the land of magic gourds, co-written with Jean-Marie Galliand, Albin Michel, 1990
  • A well-behaved young girl, Albin Michel, 1991
  • Distant Paradises, co-written with Jean-Marie Galliand, LGF, 1993
  • Kimono Nights, co-written with Jean-Marie Galliand, LGF, 1996
  • Mambo Mambo, Ramsay, 1997
  • Kensington Square, Ramsay, 1999
  • The Man Without a Gun, Seuil, 2002 and Points, 2003
  • Cévennes, colors of the world - photographs by Jean du Boisberranger -, Rouergue editions, 2003
  • The Jealousy of Flowers, Seuil, 2004 and Points, 2005
  • prefaced Scarecrows: Guardians of the Eternal by Sergio Cozzi, Equinoxe, 2006
  • prefaced La Table d'ardoise, Sylvalonia 1959, by Yves Portier, Regain de lecture, 2008
  • The Cloud Juggler, Flammarion, 2008
  • Passport to Cheju, Elytis, 2010
  • prefaced Living and Dying on the Banks of the Ganges, a photo book by Jean-François Lixon, L'Esprit du Monde, 2012
  • Marie Durand: No to religious intolerance, Actes Sud, 2012
  • Shadow Among Shadows, ed. Bruno Doucey, 2018 (about the last hours of the poet Robert Desnos).

Filmography

Film

Television

Television films

Television series

Dubbing

References

  1. ^ Berry, Chloe (27 June 2023). "Ysabelle Lacamp, actrice et romancière, est morte à 68 ans". actu.fr (in French). Retrieved 27 June 2023.
  2. ^ Mohammed Aïssaoui (27 June 2023). "La romancière et actrice Ysabelle Lacamp est morte à l'âge de 68 ans". Le Figaro. Retrieved 27 June 2023..

Bibliography

  • Catherine Bernié-Boissard, Michel Boissard et Serge Velay (2009). Petit dictionnaire des écrivains du Gard (in French). Nîmes: Alcide. pp. 135–136.
  • Patrick Cabanel, « Lacamp Ysabelle », dans Patrick Cabanel et André Encrevé (dir.), Dictionnaire biographique des Protestants français de 1787 à nos jours : H-L, t. III, Paris-Max Chaleil, 2022 (ISBN 978-2-84621-333-2), p. 547–548.