Michèle Desbordes Explained
Michèle Desbordes (4 August 1940, Saint-Cyr-en-Val (Loiret) – 24 January 2006, Baule (Loiret), aged 65) was a French writer. A curator of university libraries, she received several awards for her story La Demande devoted to Leonardo da Vinci.
Biography
After studying literature at the Sorbonne, she became a curator in libraries in Parisian universities, then in Guadeloupe in public readings. In 1994, she was appointed director of the University Library of Orléans. From her home in Baule she wrote poems and novels.[1]
Works
- 1986: Sombres dans la ville où elles se taisent (poetry), Arcane 17
- 1997: L'Habituée,
- 1999: La Demande, Verdier[2]
- 2000: Le Commandement, Gallimard
- 2001: Le Lit de la mer, Gallimard
- 2004: La Robe bleue, Verdier, inspired by the story of Camille Claudel[3]
- 2004: Dans le temps qu'il marchait, éditions Laurence Teper
- 2005: Un été de glycine, Verdier
- 2006: L'Emprise, Verdier
- 2006: Artemisia et autres proses, éditions Laurence Teper
- 2008: Les Petites Terres, éditions Verdier
Distinctions
For her work La Demande, 1999.:[4]
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Décès de l'écrivaine Michèle Desbordes. 2006.
- Web site: La servante Tassine. Une histoire tissée de silence entre une servante et un maître italien du grand siècle: «la Demande» de Michèle Desbordes. Michèle Desbordes.. 1999-02-11. Jean-Baptiste Harang. Libération. https://web.archive.org/web/20210509122714/https://www.liberation.fr/livres/1999/02/11/la-servante-tassine-une-histoire-tissee-de-silence-entre-une-servante-et-un-maitre-italien-du-grand-_264668/. 2021-05-09. 2021-05-09.
- Web site: Folle Claudel. 2004-04-01. Jean-Baptiste Harang. Libération. https://web.archive.org/web/20210508194737/https://www.liberation.fr/livres/2004/04/01/folle-claudel_474659/. 2021-05-08. 2021-05-08.
- http://editions-verdier.fr/livre/la-demande/ Liste des prix de La Demande, on the site of Éditions Verdier.
