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Marie Ferranti

マリー・フェランティ

Marī Feranti

Aliases: Marie-Dominique Mariotti
Pen Names: Marie FerrantiPatronym of her maternal great-grandmother used as a literary pseudonym

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1962 (Lento, Haute-Corse)
Nationality
France
Languages
French
Residence History
Saint-Florent, Haute-Corse

Career

Occupations
novelist, writer
Active Years
1995-2024
Affiliations
éditions Gallimard
Influenced By
Pascal Quignard
Influenced
Michel Mohrt

Awards

Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française
2002
Work: La Princesse de Mantoue
Organization: Académie française
Result: winner
Award from the Académie française
1995
Work: Les Femmes de San Stefano
Organization: Académie française
Result: winner
Grand Prix du Mémorial de la ville d'Ajaccio
2012
Work: Une haine de Corse. Histoire véridique de Napoléon Bonaparte et de Charles-André Pozzo di Borgo
Organization: City of Ajaccio
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

La Princesse de Mantoue

2002 novel

Les Femmes de San Stefano

1995 novel

Une haine de Corse

2012 non-fiction

Bibliography

  • 1995: Les Femmes de San Stefano, novel (crowned by the Académie française)
  • 1996: La Chambre des défunts, novel
  • 2000: La Fuite aux Agriates, novel
  • 2002: La Princesse de Mantoue, novel, Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française
  • 2002: Le Paradoxe de l'ordre, essai on the novels of Michel Mohrt
  • 2004: La Chasse de nuit, novel
  • 2006: Lucie de Syracuse, novel
  • 2006: La Cadillac des Montadori, novel
  • 2012: Une haine de Corse. Histoire véridique de Napoléon Bonaparte et de Charles-André Pozzo di Borgo, Grand Prix du Mémorial de la ville d'Ajaccio
  • 2013: Marguerite et les grenouilles. Saint Florent, chroniques, portraits et autres histoires, récits
  • 2014: Les Maîtres de chant, narration

Legacy

French writer born in Corsica, known for winning the Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française and works often set in Corsica.

Trivia

  • Real name is Marie-Dominique Mariotti. The literary pseudonym 'Ferranti' is taken from her maternal great-grandmother's surname.
  • Discovered by Pascal Quignard at éditions Gallimard.