Noëlle Châtelet

Noëlle Châtelet ( born October 16, 1944 in Meudon near Paris, France) is a French actress and author. She lives in Paris, where she teaches communication studies at the University of Paris V ( DESS).

Madame Châtelet is the sister of former French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and the philosopher François Châtelet widow.

By the year 1987, she worked as an actress in film and television. They worked among other things on the 1979 television series rotated Buddenbrooks on the novel by Thomas Mann as Gerda Buddenbrooks with. From 1989 to 1991 she was director of the French Institute in Florence and 1995-1999 President of the Maison des écrivains in Paris. She is currently Vice - President of the Société des Gens de Lettres.

She was awarded the Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle and for the lady in blue the Prix Anna de Noailles of the Académie française.

Her novels, short stories and essays have been translated into several languages.

Selections

In German language have been published:

• The sunflower girls, Roman 2000 KiWi 646, 2001.
• The final lesson, Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, 2006.
• Beloved granddaughter, Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, 2011.