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Florence Delay (; born 19 March 1941 in Paris) is a French writer. She has been a member of the Académie française since 2000. She has notably written novels, essays and plays (in collaboration with Jacques Roubaud) and has translated texts from Spanish.
She is also known for portraying
* ''Minuit sur les jeux'' (1973)
* ''Le aïe aïe de la corne de brume'' (1975)
* ''Graal théâtre'' (in coll. with Jacques Roubaud, 1977–1981)
* ''L’Insuccès de la fête'' (1980)
* ''Riche et légère'' (1983)
* ''Acte de la Passion, in Théâtre espagnol du XVIe siècle'' (1983)
* ''Marco Polo, le nouveau livre des merveilles'', (in coll. with Jean Marie Adiaffi, Sony Labou Tansi, Jacques Savoie, Louis Caron, Abdelaziz Kacem, Jacques Lacarrière, Bertrand Visage - 1985)
* ''Course d’amour pendant le deuil'' (1986)
* ''L'Éclypse de la balle, d’Arnaldo Calveyra'' (1987)
* ''Il me semble, Mesdames ou Les Dames de Fontainebleau'' (1987)
* ''Petites formes en prose après Edison'' (1987)
* ''"La sortie au jour" in Le Livre sacré de l’ancienne Égypte'' (1987)
* ''Le divin Narcisse, et autres textes, de Sor Juana Inès de la Cruz'', (in coll. with Frédéric Magne and Jacques Roubaud, 1987)
* ''La Décadence de l’analphabétisme, de José BergamÃn'' (1988)
* ''Partition rouge. Poèmes et chants des Indiens d’Amérique du Nord'', (in coll. with Jacques Roubaud, 1988)
* ''La Célestine (version courte), de Fernando de Rojas'' (1989)
* ''La Solitude sonore du toreo, de José BergamÃn'' (1989)
* ''L’Hexaméron'' (in coll. with Michel Chaillou, Michel Deguy, Natacha Michel, Denis Roche, Jacques Roubaud, 1990)
* ''Etxemendi'' (1990)
* ''Semaines de Suzanne'' (in coll. with Patrick Deville, Jean Echenoz, Sonja Greenlee, Harry Mathew, Mark Polizzotti, Olivier Rolin, 1991)
* ''Les Moitiés, de Ramón Gómez de la Serna'', (in coll. with Pierre Lartigue, 1991)
* ''Catalina, enquête'' (1994)
* ''Å’illet rouge sur le sable'' (1994)
* ''La Fin des temps ordinaires'' (1996)
* ''La Séduction brève'' (1997)
* ''Six poèmes galiciens, de Federico GarcÃa Lorca'' (1998)
* ''L’Homme du Luxembourg, d’Arnaldo Calveyra'' (1998)
* ''Beauténébreux, de José BergamÃn'' (1999)
* ''Dit Nerval, essai'' (1999)
* ''Michée, Aggée, Zacharie, Malachie'', (with Maurice Roger and Arnaud Sérandour, 2001)
* ''Le Grand Théâtre du monde suivi de Procès en séparation de l’Âme et du Corps, de Pedro Calderón de la Basca'' (2004)
* ''Mon Espagne. Or et Ciel'', Hermann (2008)
L'Académie française
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Delay, Florence 1941 births Living people Writers from Paris University of Paris alumni Members of the Académie Française French women novelists Prix Femina winners French women dramatists and playwrights
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc ( ; ; – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the Coronation of the French monarch, coronation of Charles VII o ...
in the 1962 Robert Bresson film '' The Trial of Joan of Arc''.
Biography
Florence Delay is the second daughter of Marie-Madeleine Carrez and Jean Delay, psychiatrist and writer. She is the sister of Claude Delay, writer and psychoanalyst. Florence attended the Lycée Jean de La Fontaine and then studied Spanish at Faculté des lettres de Paris and at the Sorbonne. After obtaining her Spanish degree, she taught general and comparative literature at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. In 1962, aged 20, she played the title role ofJoan of Arc
Joan of Arc ( ; ; – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the Coronation of the French monarch, coronation of Charles VII o ...
in ''Procès de Jeanne d'Arc (The Trial of Joan of Arc)'' by Robert Bresson.
After studying at the École du Vieux-Colombier, she was then a trainee stage manager at the Festival d’Avignon, assistant to Raymond Rouleau at the Théâtre du Gymnase, and to Georges Wilson at the Théâtre national populaire (TNP). She translated '' La Celestina'' by Fernando de Rojas, staged by Antoine Vitez in 1989; and then, in another version, by Christian Schiaretti, at the TNP in 2011, as well as works from the Spanish Golden Age ( Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Vega
Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (; 25 November 156227 August 1635) was a Spanish playwright, poet, and novelist who was a key figure in the Spanish Golden Age (1492–1659) of Spanish Baroque literature, Baroque literature. In the literature of ...
).
In 1973, she published her first novel, ''Minuit sur les jeux''. Starting with ''Petites Formes en prose après Edison'' (1987), she alternated between novels, essays and other writings. She was awarded the Prix Femina
The Prix Femina is a French List of literary awards, literary prize awarded each year by an exclusively female jury. The prize, which was established in 1904, is awarded to French-language works written in prose or Verse (poetry), verse by male ...
in 1983 for her novel ''Riche et légère'', the Prix François-Mauriac in 1990 for Etxemendi, the Grand Prix du Roman de la Ville de Paris in 1999 and the Prix de l’Essai de l’Académie française for ''Dit Nerval''. With Jacques Roubaud of the Oulipo, she compiled ''Graal Théâtre,'' a series of ten plays about the Arthurian legend, from 1977 to 2005.
She was a juror for the Prix Femina (1978-1982), a member of the reading committee of Éditions Gallimard (1979-1987), a member of the editorial board of the journal '' Critique'' (1978-1995), a drama columnist for '' La Nouvelle Revue française'' (1978-1985), and a member of the reading committee of the Comédie-Française (2002-2006).
She has been an actress, narrator or writer in movies by Chris Marker, Hugo Santiago, Benoît Jacquot, , and Michel Deville.
Florence Delay was elected as a member of the Académie française on 14 December 2000.
She is married to the film producer Maurice Bernart.
Bibliography
* ''Minuit sur les jeux'' (1973)
* ''Le aïe aïe de la corne de brume'' (1975)
* ''Graal théâtre'' (in coll. with Jacques Roubaud, 1977–1981)
* ''L’Insuccès de la fête'' (1980)
* ''Riche et légère'' (1983)
* ''Acte de la Passion, in Théâtre espagnol du XVIe siècle'' (1983)
* ''Marco Polo, le nouveau livre des merveilles'', (in coll. with Jean Marie Adiaffi, Sony Labou Tansi, Jacques Savoie, Louis Caron, Abdelaziz Kacem, Jacques Lacarrière, Bertrand Visage - 1985)
* ''Course d’amour pendant le deuil'' (1986)
* ''L'Éclypse de la balle, d’Arnaldo Calveyra'' (1987)
* ''Il me semble, Mesdames ou Les Dames de Fontainebleau'' (1987)
* ''Petites formes en prose après Edison'' (1987)
* ''"La sortie au jour" in Le Livre sacré de l’ancienne Égypte'' (1987)
* ''Le divin Narcisse, et autres textes, de Sor Juana Inès de la Cruz'', (in coll. with Frédéric Magne and Jacques Roubaud, 1987)
* ''La Décadence de l’analphabétisme, de José BergamÃn'' (1988)
* ''Partition rouge. Poèmes et chants des Indiens d’Amérique du Nord'', (in coll. with Jacques Roubaud, 1988)
* ''La Célestine (version courte), de Fernando de Rojas'' (1989)
* ''La Solitude sonore du toreo, de José BergamÃn'' (1989)
* ''L’Hexaméron'' (in coll. with Michel Chaillou, Michel Deguy, Natacha Michel, Denis Roche, Jacques Roubaud, 1990)
* ''Etxemendi'' (1990)
* ''Semaines de Suzanne'' (in coll. with Patrick Deville, Jean Echenoz, Sonja Greenlee, Harry Mathew, Mark Polizzotti, Olivier Rolin, 1991)
* ''Les Moitiés, de Ramón Gómez de la Serna'', (in coll. with Pierre Lartigue, 1991)
* ''Catalina, enquête'' (1994)
* ''Å’illet rouge sur le sable'' (1994)
* ''La Fin des temps ordinaires'' (1996)
* ''La Séduction brève'' (1997)
* ''Six poèmes galiciens, de Federico GarcÃa Lorca'' (1998)
* ''L’Homme du Luxembourg, d’Arnaldo Calveyra'' (1998)
* ''Beauténébreux, de José BergamÃn'' (1999)
* ''Dit Nerval, essai'' (1999)
* ''Michée, Aggée, Zacharie, Malachie'', (with Maurice Roger and Arnaud Sérandour, 2001)
* ''Le Grand Théâtre du monde suivi de Procès en séparation de l’Âme et du Corps, de Pedro Calderón de la Basca'' (2004)
* ''Mon Espagne. Or et Ciel'', Hermann (2008)
Filmography
* '' The Trial of Joan of Arc'' (1962) * '' Le Jouet criminel'' (1969, short) * '' Collections privées'' (1979, segment "Kusa-Meikyu", voice) * '' Écoute voir...'' (1979) * '' Les Années Arruza...'' (1996)References
External links
*L'Académie française
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Delay, Florence 1941 births Living people Writers from Paris University of Paris alumni Members of the Académie Française French women novelists Prix Femina winners French women dramatists and playwrights