Florence Delay
Florence Delay ( born March 19, 1941 in Paris ) is a French writer, actress and translator who is since 2000 member of the Académie française.
- 2.1 novels, plays and essays
- 2.2 translations
- 3.1 actress
- 3.2 scriptwriter
Life
Studies and theatrical activities
Florence Delay, daughter of a neurologist, psychiatrist and writer Jean Delay, who also was a member of the Académie française 1959-1987, studied after attending the Lycée Jean -de -La -Fontaine Ibero Logical Philology at the University of Paris.
During her studies she worked as an actress and played under the birth name of her mother ( Florence Carrez ) 1962, the main role of Joan of Arc in the movie Procès de Jeanne d' Arc by Robert Bresson. The film was one of the competition entries at the International Film Festival of Cannes 1962. Later they played a few more roles in films by directors such as Chris Marker, Hugo Santiago, Benoit Jacquot and Michel Deville.
It was while studying also a drama student at the Théâtre du Vieux- Colombier, one of the three theater of the Comédie Française, and assistant director of Jean Vilar in 1947, founded by this festival of Avignon. In addition, it was 1963-1964 assistant to George Wilson at the Théâtre National Populaire.
After completing her studies, she worked as a university lecturer in general literature and comparative literature at the University of Paris III.
Writer, translator and essayist
In 1973 she published with Minuit sur les jeux their first Bildungsroman. Florence Delay, which wrote a column about stage works for the literary magazine Nouvelle Revue Française 1978-1985, was from 1978 to 1982 and member of the jury for the Prix Femina and 1978-1995 Member of the Editorial Board, which was founded by Georges Bataille 1946 literary journal Critique. In addition, it was in the years 1979 to 1987 a member of the editorial department of the publishing house Éditions Gallimard, appeared in dozens of their own works.
In 1983 she was awarded for the novel Riche et légère (1983 ) even the literary prize Prix Femina. After petites formes en prose après Edison ( 1987), she also wrote essays in addition to novels.
In addition to her literary career, she worked to continue with the theater and with Spain. She was especially known for her translations of Spanish classics such as the tragicomedy La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas, which was staged in 1989 by Antoine Vitez, among other things, and again in 2011 by Christian Schiaretti at the Théâtre National Populaire. Her other translations were works of Pedro Calderón de la Barca and Lope de Vega, all of which have found their way into the repertoire of the Comédie- Française.
For Etxemendi (1990 ), she was awarded the Prix François Mauriac. In 1999, she received both the Grand Prize for novels of the city of Paris as well as the price of essays by the French Academy for the essay Dit Nerval (1999).
Together with Jacques Roubaud she wrote in 2005 the ten -part cycle Graal théâtre, which refers to the Matière de Bretagne, an exploration of the Arthurian legends.
On 14 December 2010 Florence Delay was elected member of the Académie française, and took there as a successor to Jean Guitton tenth armchair ( fauteuil 10) a.
In addition, she has won several awards and received, among other things, the Officer's Cross of the Legion of Honour and of the Ordre national du Mérite and is also commanding officer of the urine Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Publications
Novels, plays and essays
- Minuit sur les jeux, 1973
- Le aïe aïe de la corne de brume, 1975
- L' Insuccès de la fête 1980
- Acte de la Passion, 1983
- Riche et légère, 1983
- Marco Polo, le nouveau livre des merveilles, 1985
- Course d' amour pendant le deuil, 1986
- Petites formes en prose après Edison, 1986
- Il me semble, Mesdames ou Les Dames de Fontainebleau, 1987
- La sortie au jour, 1987
- Partition rouge. Poèmes et chants of India d' Amérique du Nord, co-author Jacques Roubaud, 1988
- L' Hexameron, co-authors Chaillou Michel, Michel Deguy, Natacha Michel, Denis Roche, Jacques Roubaud, 1990
- Etxemendi, 1990
- Semaines de Suzanne, collection, coauthors Patrick Deville, Jean Echenoz, Sonja Greenlee, Harry Mathew, Mark Polizzotti, Olivier Rolin, 1990
- Catalina, enquête, 1994
- Œillet rouge sur le sable, 1994
- La Fin des temps ordinaires, 1996
- La Seduction brève, 1997
- Dit Nerval, essay, 1999
- Michée, Aggée, Zacharie, Malachie, co-authors Maurice Roger and Arnaud Sérandour, 2001
- L' Évangile de Jean, Trois lettres de Jean, co-author Alain Marchadour, 2001
- Graal théâtre. Joseph d' Arimathie, Merlin l' enchanteur, Gauvain et le Chevalier Vert, Perceval le Gallois, Lancelot du Lac, l' Enlèvement de la reine, Morgane contre Guenièvre, Fin des Temps aventureux, Galaad ou la Quête, La tragédie du roi Arthur, co-author Jacques Roubaud, 2005
- Mon Espagne or et Ciel, 2008
- Mes cendriers, 2010
- Il me semble, Mesdames, 2012
Translations
- Le divin Narcisse et autres textes, translation of Juana Inés de la Cruz, co-authors Frederic Magne and Jacques Roubaud, 1987
- L' Éclipse de la balle, translation by Arnaldo Calveyra, 1987
- La decadence de l' analphabétisme, translation by José Bergamín, 1987
- La Solitude du sonorous toreo, translation by José Bergamín, 1989
- Les Moities, translation of Ramón Gómez de la Serna, co-translator Pierre Lartigue, 1991
- L' Homme du Luxembourg, translation by Arnaldo Calveyra, 1994
- Six poèmes Galician translation of Federico García Lorca, 1998
- Beau Ténébreux, translation by José Bergamín, 1999
- Le Grand Théâtre du monde en suivi de Procès séparation de l' Âme et du Corps, translation of Pedro Calderón de la Barca, 2004
- Pedro et le Commandeur, translation of Lope de Vega, 2006
- La Célestine, translation by Fernando de Rojas, 2011