Marie Cardinal (born Simone Odette Marie-Thérèse Cardinal; 9 March 1929 – 9 May 2001) was a French novelist and occasional actress.
Life and career
Cardinal was born in
French Algeria
French Algeria ( until 1839, then afterwards; unofficially ; ), also known as Colonial Algeria, was the period of History of Algeria, Algerian history when the country was a colony and later an integral part of France. French rule lasted until ...
and was the sister of the film director
Pierre Cardinal. She graduated with a degree in philosophy from the
Sorbonne and married the French playwright, actor and director
Jean-Pierre Ronfard Jean-Pierre Ronfard (January 14, 1929 - September 23, 2003) was a France, French-born Canada, Canadian actor, playwright and theatre director from Quebec,Gaetan Charlebois"Ronfard, Jean-Pierre" ''Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia'', November 22, 2020. m ...
in 1953.
They had three children; Alice, Benoit, and Benedict. From 1953 to 1960, Cardinal taught philosophy at schools in
Salonica, Lisbon, Vienna and Montreal.
[
She published her debut novel, ''Écoutez la Mer'' (''Listen to the Sea''), in 1962. During the 1960s, she wrote three more novels and ventured into film, appearing in ]Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard ( , ; ; 3 December 193013 September 2022) was a French and Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as ...
's '' Deux Ou Trois Choses Que Je Sais D'elle''Robert Bresson
Robert Bresson (; 25 September 1901 – 18 December 1999) was a French film director. Known for his ascetic approach, Bresson made a notable contribution to the art of cinema; his non-professional actors, Ellipsis (narrative device), ellipses, an ...
's film '' Mouchette''.[ ''Les Mots Pour Le Dire'' also introduced Cardinal to English-speaking readers,]
Bibliography
* ''Écoutez la mer'' (''Listen to the Sea'') (1962)
* ''La mule de corbillard'' (1963)
* ''La souricière'' (1965)
* ''Cet été-là'' (1967)
* ''La clé sur la porte'' (''The Key of the Door'') (1972)
* '' Les Mots pour le dire'' (''The Words to Say It'') (1975)
* ''Autrement dit'' (1977)
* ''Une vie pour deux'' (1979)
* ''Au Pays de mes racines'' (1980)
* ''Le passé empiété'' (1983)
* ''Les grands désordres'' (1987)
* ''Les Pieds-Noirs'' (1988)
* ''Comme si de rien n'était'' (1990)
* ''Peer Gynt d'Henrik Ibsen'' (theater) (1991) translation
* ''Les Troyennes d'Euripide'' (theater) (1993) translation
* ''Les jeudis de Charles et Lula'' (1994)
* ''Amour... Amours...'' (1998)
* ''Oedipe à Colone de Sophocle'' (theater) (2003) translation
References
Further reading
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* A review of ''The Words to Say It''.
External links
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1929 births
2001 deaths
20th-century French novelists
Algerian women novelists
Algerian novelists
Algerian writers in French
French film actresses
French women novelists
20th-century French women writers
20th-century Algerian writers
20th-century Algerian women writers