Lydie_Salvayre

Lydie Salvayre

Lydie Salvayre

French writer (born 1948)

Lydie Salvayre (born Lydie Arjona in 1948) is a French writer. Born in the south of France to Republican refugees from the Spanish Civil War, she went on to study medicine in Toulouse and continues to work as a practicing psychiatrist.[1]

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She has been awarded the Prix Hermes,[citation needed] the Prix Décembre[2] for her work, and the 2014 Prix Goncourt for Pas pleurer.[3]

Works

  • La Déclaration (1990)
  • La Vie commune (1991) - translated into English as Everyday Life (Dalkey Archive Press 2006)
  • La Médaille (1993) - translated into English as The Award (Four Walls Eight Windows 1997)
  • La Puissance des mouches (1995) - translated into English as The Power of Flies (Dalkey Archive Press 2007)
  • La Compagnie des spectres (1997) - translated into English as The Company of Ghosts (Dalkey Archive Press 2006)
  • Quelques conseils aux élèves huissiers (1997)
  • La Conférence de Cintegabelle (1999) - translated into English as The Lecture (Dalkey Archive Press 2005)
  • Les Belles âmes (2000)
  • Le Vif du vivant (2001)
  • Et que les vers mangent le bœuf mort (2002)
  • Contre (2002)
  • Passage à l'ennemie (2003)
  • La méthode Mila (2005)
  • Dis pas ça (2006)
  • Lumières sur la CCAS. Les activités sociales des salariés de l'énergie (2006, collective work)
  • Portrait de l'écrivain en animal domestique (2007)
  • Petit traité d'éducation lubrique (2008)
  • BW (2009)
  • Hymne (2011)
  • 7 femmes (2013)
  • Pas pleurer (2014, Prix Goncourt); published in English in 2016 by MacLehose Press as Cry, Mother Spain (translated by Ben Faccini).
  • Marcher jusqu'au soir (2019)

Decorations

References

  1. [1]
    Blandin, Noel (20 August 2009). "Biographie : Qui est Lydie Salvayre ?". La République des Lettres. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
  2. [2]
    "Prix Décembre". Prix Littéraires. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
  3. [3]
    Kim Willsher (5 November 2014). "Former psychiatrist Lydie Salvayre wins Prix Goncourt". The Guardian. Retrieved November 5, 2014.
  4. [4]
    "Nomination dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres juillet 2015 - Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
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