Dominique Bona (born 29 July 1953) is a French writer.

Life

She won the 2000 Bourse Goncourt for biography, and 1998

Prix Renaudot The Prix Théophraste-Renaudot or () is a French literary award. History The prize was created in 1926 by ten art critics awaiting the results of deliberation of the jury of the Prix Goncourt. While not officially related to the Prix Goncour ...

. She was the literary critic for ''

Le Figaro () is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It was named after Figaro, a character in several plays by polymath Pierre Beaumarchais, Beaumarchais (1732–1799): ''Le Barbier de Séville'', ''The Guilty Mother, La Mère coupable'', ...

'' and '' Le Journal du dimanche''. She was elected a member of

Académie Française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...

in April 2013. She is the daughter of Arthur Conte and Colette Lacassagne.''European Biographical Directory'', R.H.Neirijnck ed., Bruges, Belgium, 1997, p. 125.

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1953 births Living people French biographers Members of the Académie Française Prix Renaudot winners Prix Goncourt de la Biographie winners Officers of the Legion of Honour Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite Prix Interallié winners People from Perpignan 20th-century French women writers 21st-century French women writers French women biographers French literary critics French women literary critics {{France-writer-stub