Muriel Barbery
Muriel Barbery (born 28 May 1969 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a French novelist and professor of philosophy.
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[edit] Biography
Barbery studied at the Lycée Lakanal, entered the École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud in 1990 and obtained her agrégation in philosophy in 1993. She then taught philosophy at the Université de Bourgogne, in a lycée, and at the Saint-Lô IUFM (teacher training college).[1]
Her novel L'Élégance du hérisson (translated into English by Alison Anderson as The Elegance of the Hedgehog) topped the French best-seller lists for 30 consecutive weeks[2] and was reprinted 50 times. By May 2008 it had sold more than a million copies.[3] It concerns the inhabitants of a small Paris apartment block, notably its crypto-intellectual concierge, Renée. She and Paloma, the likewise intellectual teenage daughter of a resident family, narrate the book in turn. Renée also features briefly in Barbery's first novel, Une Gourmandise, which appeared in Anderson's English translation as Gourmet Rhapsody in 2009.[4]
[edit] Novels
- Une Gourmandise, Gallimard, 2000; in English, Gourmet Rhapsody, Europa Editions, 2009.
- L'Élégance du hérisson, Gallimard, 2006; in English The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Europa Editions, 2008.
[edit] References
- ^ CV on the website of Villa Kujoyama
- ^ Marianne No. 528, 2-8 June, p. 76
- ^ http://www.livreshebdo.fr/actualites/DetailsActuRub.aspx?id=1821
- ^ Interview highlights: 31 October 2010.
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