Dominique Barbéris

Dominique Barbéris
Born	1958 Cameroon
Occupation	writer, novelist, essayist, professor
Literary movement	French Literature

Dominique Barbéris (born 1958) is a French novelist, author of literary studies and university professor, specializing in stylistics and writing workshops.

Biography

Born in 1958 in Cameroon into a French family of Nantes, her father was a diplomat in Africa. Dominique Barberis studied at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Sèvres and the University of Sorbonne, after her childhood in Nantes, then in Brussels. She began teaching at a high school in Boulogne-Billancourt before joining an insurance company as head of communications. She later taught in several other schools. Then she was appointed professor at the University of Paris IV in foreign languages and applied foreign languages at the French language department in which she runs courses and workshops on writing fiction. She published her first novel La Ville with Éditions Arléa in 1996 at the age of 38, before joining Gallimard in 1998 as an author. In 2019, she returned to Arléa, where she published Un dimanche à Ville-d'Avray. She has also published several literary studies and prefaces.

Bibliography

Literature

• La Ville 1996
• L'Heure exquise 1998 - Marianne Award
• Le Temps des dieux 2000
• Les Kangourous 2002, filmed in 2005 by Anne Fontaine under the title Entre ses mains -
• Ce qui s'enfuit 2005
• Quelque chose à cacher 2007 - Prix des Deux Magots 2008 and City of Nantes Award, 2008.
• Beau Rivage 2010
• La vie en marge, 2014
• L'Année de l'éducation sentimentale, 2016
• Un dimanche à Ville-d'Avray, 2019

Studies and prefaces

• Un amour de Swann, 1990
• Chateaubriand 1994
• Un roi sans divertissement : an introduction to the work of Jean Giono 1991
• Langue et littérature : Anthology of XIX and XX century, (with Dominique Rincé) 1992
• Moderato cantabile / L'Amant, Marguerite Duras, 1995
• Le Grand Meaulnes, Alain Fournier,1996
• Je suis aussi... preface to the poetry of Carlos Alvarado-Larroucau, Coll. Poètes des cinq continents, L'Harmattan, 2009

Reviews on her work

• Quatre lectures, Four readings: critical essay of Jean-Pierre Richard, Fayard 2002.

Sources

Part of this biography was obtained from her studies and prefaces. See also:

• Interview with Anne Fontaine in Europe 2.
• Les Sanglots de l'automne, Le Figaro Littéraire, jeudi 4 octobre 2007
• L'air du soupcon, Liberation, 20 September 2007
• Secret automne, Le Figaro magazine, 28 September 2007
• El Louvre, inspiración para la ficción, La Nación, 21 January 2009

Other Interviews, in The Nouvel Obs, The Sud Ouest, and many other newspapers.