Hélène de Monferrand explained

Hélène de Montferrand (born 1947 Saint-Mandé) is a French novelist.

She grew up in Algeria and studied at Nanterre and at the Sorbonne.^[1] Her work continues and "resonates with echoes" the work of Jeanne Galzy. She received the Goncourt prize for a first novel (not to be mistaken with the Prix Goncourt) in 1990 for Les amies d'Héloïse.^[2] The novel is an exchange of letters.^[3] She contributes regularly to the Lesbia magazine.^[4]

Works

• Sonate royale, poèmes, Paris, les Paragraphes littéraires de Paris, 1970
• Les Amies d'Héloïse, roman, Ed. de Fallois, Paris, 1990
• Journal de Suzanne, roman, Ed. de Fallois, Paris, 1991,
• Les Enfants d'Héloïse, Double interligne, Paris, 1997 ; la Cerisaie, Paris, 2002
• Avec Elula Perrin, L'Habit ne fait pas la nonne, Paris, Double interligne, 1998
• Avec Elula Perrin, Ne tirez pas sur la violoniste, Paris, Double interligne, 1999
• Retour à Sarcelles, roman des temps prolétariens, Paris, la Cerisaie : 2004

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hélène de Monferrand . lezz-rencontres.fr-bb.com . 6 June 2022 . https://archive.today/20120718072442/http://lezz-rencontres.fr-bb.com/auteurs-f67/helene-de-monferrand-t1837.htm . 18 July 2012 . dead.
2. Hawthorne. Melanie. 2003. 'Une voiture peut en cacher une autre': Twentieth-Century Women Writers Read George Sand. SubStance. 32. 3. 92–108. 3685530. 10.1353/sub.2003.0056. 170618882 .
3. Book: Waelti-Walters, Jennifer. Damned Women: Lesbians in French Novel. 2000. McGill-Queen's Press. 9780773568570. 187.
4. Book: Martel, Frédéric. The Pink and the Black: Homosexuals in France Since 1968. 1999. Stanford UP. 9780804732741. 139.