Marie Redonnet is the nom de plume of Martine L'hospitalier (born 1948, Paris) who is a French writer of poems, novels, essays, short stories, and plays. Her works have been translated into eleven languages.

Biography

Martine L'hospitalier was born in 1948, her mother's birth name was Redonnet. She studied literature, particularly

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TheModernNovel, retrieved 1 December 2014 and she became a teacher and began writing in the late 1970s. Her first published work was '' Le Mort & Cie'', a collection of poems released in 1985. The following year, she published a collection of short stories entitled ''Doublures''. She followed that with a trilogy of novels: ''Splendid Hôtel'' (1986), ''Forever Valley'', and ''Rose Mélie Rose'' (1987). Redonnet has taught at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle, Université de la Sorbonne-Nouvelle. From 1995 to 1997, she was responsible for the research of art and language at the

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. From 2000 to 2004, she was an advisor for literature at the French embassy in

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. Her books are written in sparse prose that some have compared to

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, Redonnet and her son are based in Morocco.

Selected works

Novels

* ''Candy Story'' (1992) * ''Nevermore'' (1994)> * ''Diego'' (2005)

Short stories

* ''Silsie'' (1990)

Plays

* ''Tir & Lir'' (1988) * ''Mobie-Diq'' (1989) * ''Seaside'' (1991) * ''Le Cirque Pandor'' and ''Fort Gambo'' (1991)

References

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