Florence Delay (French pronunciation: [flɔʁɑ̃sdəlɛ] ; 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 Joan of Arc in the 1962 Robert Bresson film The Trial of Joan of Arc .
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. [1] In 1962, aged 20, she played the title role of Joan of Arc in Procès de Jeanne d'Arc (The Trial of Joan of Arc) by Robert Bresson. [2] [3] [1]
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). [3]
In 1973, she published her first novel, Minuit sur les jeux. [2] [1] [4] Starting with Petites Formes en prose après Edison (1987), she alternated between novels, essays and other writings. [5] She was awarded the Prix Femina in 1983 for her novel Riche et légère, [2] the Prix François-Mauriac in 1990 for Etxemendi, [5] the Grand Prix du Roman de la Ville de Paris in 1999 [5] and the Prix de l’Essai de l’Académie française for Dit Nerval. [5] With Jacques Roubaud of the Oulipo, she compiled Graal Théâtre, a series of ten plays about the Arthurian legend, from 1977 to 2005. [3]
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, Emilio Maillé , and Michel Deville.
Florence Delay was elected as a member of the Académie française on 14 December 2000. [5]
She is married to the film producer Maurice Bernart .
Jacques Roubaud was a French poet, writer, and mathematician.
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