Joëlle Guillais Explained

Joëlle Guillais
Birth Name:Joëlle Maury
Birth Date:1952 8, df=y
Birth Place:Alençon, France
Death Place:Caen, France
Nationality:French
Occupation:Writer

Joëlle Guillais (Maury; 10 August 1952 – 19 November 2022) was a French writer.[1]

Biography

Originally from Alençon, Guillais earned a doctoral degree in history.[2] In 1988, she published La Berthe with Plon, which was described by Michelle Perrot in Libération as "an ethnological document of exceptional quality, as well as a story of great intensity".[3] In 1997, she published the story Agnès E, which sought to give visibility to women's prisons at a time when little attention was given to the affairs of prisoners.[2] In 2008, she wrote and published La pesticide, an avant-garde dystopian novel which covered the dangerous effect of pesticides on human health, for which she received harassment from farmers following its publication.[4]

Guillais directed "Mot A Mot" writing workshops in Paris and Saint-Cyr-la-Rosière.[5] She collaborated with Laurence Verdier to publish a collection of 23 short stories titled 23 mecs comme ça, which reflected male-female relations in contemporary society.[6] In 2019, she published Matins de fer, a novel inspired by the death of three young Romanis in a traffic collision on the A7 autoroute in La Castellane.[7] [8] She worked as a portrait painter for the magazine Pays du Perche after having written several columns for the HuffPost.[9]

Guillais died following a stroke in Caen, on 19 November 2022, at the age of 70.[10]

Publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Guillais, Joëlle (1952-....). Bibliothèque nationale de France. French.
  2. Web site: Joëlle Guillais. Maison des écrivains et de la littérature. French.
  3. Web site: La Berthe. Payot Libraire. French.
  4. News: Benhaiem. Annabelle. 5 March 2011. Pesticides: le combat de Joëlle Guillais. French. L'Express. 23 November 2022.
  5. News: 24 February 2016. Un atelier d'écriture pour recréer du lien. French. France Info. 23 November 2022.
  6. News: Manfredi. Astrid. 23 January 2017. " 23 mecs comme ça " : un recueil de nouvelles sans eau de rose …. French. Laisse parler les filles. 23 November 2022.
  7. News: 11 December 2019. Mortagne-au-Perche. Joëlle Guillais raconte les Matins de fer. French. Ouest-France. Mortagne-au-Perche. 23 November 2022.
  8. News: Benhaiem. Annabelle. 8 November 2019. Avec "Matins de fer" de Joëlle Guillais, le voyage chez les Gitans est sans retour. French. HuffPost. 23 November 2022.
  9. News: 27 January 2020. La revue Pays du Perche, un magazine qui révèle les trésors du Perche. French. Ouest-France. Remelard-en-Perche. 23 November 2022.
  10. News: 21 November 2022. Orne. Joëlle Guillais, autrice de " La Berthe ", est décédée. French. Actu.fr. 23 November 2022.

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