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Gwenaëlle Aubry

グウェナエル・オブリ

Gwenaëlle Aubry

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1971-04-02 (Unknown)
Nationality
French
Languages
French
Residence History
Paris

Career

Occupations
novelist, philosopher
Active Years
1999-2024
Affiliations
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Centre international d'étude de la philosophie française contemporaine
Memberships
Member of the reading committee at the Théâtre national de la Colline
Nominations
Prix Médicis, Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie française, etc. (Personne)

Education

École Normale Supérieure
Philosophy / Philosophy
Degree: agrégation
Period: 1989-1992
Year of Graduation: 1992
Country: France
Agrégation in Philosophy
Trinity College, Cambridge
Philosophy
Degree: MPhil
Country: United Kingdom
Knox Scholarship, Master of Philosophy
Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne
Philosophy
Degree: Doctorate
Year of Graduation: 1999
Country: France
Doctorate in Philosophy

Awards

Prix Femina
2009
Work: Personne
Result: 受賞
Bourse Cino del Duca
1999
Work: Le Diable détacheur
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Personne

2009 novel

An alphabet-novel, a portrait of a melancholic 'from twenty-six angles with nothing at the center'.

melancholyportraitabsence
Translations
  • English: No One (Trista Selous trans.)

Bibliography

  • Le Diable détacheur, Actes Sud, 1999
  • L'Isolée, Stock, 2002
  • L'Isolement, Stock, 2003
  • Notre vie s'use en transfigurations, Actes Sud, 2007
  • Personne, Mercure de France, 2009
  • Partages, Mercure de France, 2012
  • Lazare mon amour, L'Iconoclaste, 2016
  • Perséphone 2014, Mercure de France, 2016
  • La Folie Elisa, Mercure de France, 2018

Translations by Author

  • Translations from ancient Greek (Plotinus, Porphyry, Proclus)

Translations of Works

  • Personne translated into a dozen languages

Style & Themes

Literary Style
experimentalfragmentaryphilosophical
Recurring Motifs
isolationtransfigurationmelancholy

Legacy

Known as a Prix Femina-winning novelist and philosopher bridging ancient philosophy and contemporary literature.

Trivia

  • Married to philosopher Quentin Meillassoux