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Dominique Barbéris

ドミニク・バルベリス

Dominique Barberis

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1958-01-01 (Cameroon)
Nationality
France
Languages
French
Residence History
Nantes → Brussels → Paris → Boulogne-Billancourt

Career

Occupations
novelist, essayist, professor
Active Years
1996-2023
Affiliations
Sorbonne University
Nominations
Prix Femina 2007 finalist (Quelque chose à cacher), Prix des Deux Magots 2008 finalist (Quelque chose à cacher), Prix de la Ville de Nantes 2008 (Quelque chose à cacher)

Education

École Normale Supérieure
Faculty of Letters / Department of Literature
Country: France
Paris
Sorbonne University
Foreign languages and Applied foreign languages department
Country: France
French language department, stylistics courses and novel writing workshops

Awards

Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française
2023
Work: Une façon d'aimer
Organization: Académie française
Result: 受賞
Prix Jean Freustié
2018
Work: L'Année de l'éducation sentimentale
Result: 受賞
Prix Marianne
1998
Work: L'Heure exquise
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Une façon d'aimer

2023 novel

Madeleine, a discreet and melancholic beauty from the 1950s, leaves Brittany for Cameroon and falls in love amid decolonization.

lovedecolonizationexoticism
Translations
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Poland, Greece, Lithuania

Bibliography

  • La Ville (1996)
  • L'Heure exquise (1998)
  • Le Temps des dieux (2000)
  • Les Kangourous (2002)
  • Ce qui s’enfuit (2005)
  • Quelque chose à cacher (2007)
  • Beau Rivage (2010)
  • La Vie en marge (2014)
  • L'Année de l'éducation sentimentale (2018)
  • Un dimanche à Ville-d'Avray (2019)
  • Une façon d'aimer (2023)

Adaptations

  • Les Kangourous adapted as Entre ses mains (2005) by Anne Fontaine

Translations of Works

  • English translation of Un dimanche à Ville-d'Avray as A Sunday in Ville-d'Avray
  • Works translated into 7 languages

Style & Themes

Literary Style
delicate styleatmospheric
Recurring Motifs
melancholysecretsParis suburbs

Legacy

Recognized as a significant French novelist, winner of major literary prizes, with works translated internationally.