| Lydie Salvayre | |
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 Lydie Salvayre at the 2019 Geneva book fair | |
| Born | 5 September 1948  Autainville |
| Works | Cry, Mother Spain |
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Lydie Salvayre (born Lydie Arjona in 1948) is a French writer. Born in the south of France to Republican refugees from the Spanish Civil War, she went on to study medicine in Toulouse and continues to work as a practicing psychiatrist.
She has been awarded the Prix Hermes, the Prix Décembre for her work, and the 2014 Prix Goncourt for Pas pleurer.
Works
- La Déclaration (1990)
- La Vie commune (1991) - translated into English as Everyday Life (Dalkey Archive Press 2006)
- La Médaille (1993) - translated into English as The Award (Four Walls Eight Windows 1997)
- La Puissance des mouches (1995) - translated into English as The Power of Flies (Dalkey Archive Press 2007)
- La Compagnie des spectres (1997) - translated into English as The Company of Ghosts (Dalkey Archive Press 2006)
- Quelques conseils aux élèves huissiers (1997)
- La Conférence de Cintegabelle (1999) - translated into English as The Lecture (Dalkey Archive Press 2005)
- Les Belles âmes (2000)
- Le Vif du vivant (2001)
- Et que les vers mangent le bœuf mort (2002)
- Contre (2002)
- Passage à l'ennemie (2003)
- La méthode Mila (2005)
- Dis pas ça (2006)
- Lumières sur la CCAS. Les activités sociales des salariés de l'énergie (2006, collective work)
- Portrait de l'écrivain en animal domestique (2007)
- Petit traité d'éducation lubrique (2008)
- BW (2009)
- Hymne (2011)
- 7 femmes (2013)
- Pas pleurer (2014, Prix Goncourt); published in English in 2016 by MacLehose Press as Cry, Mother Spain (translated by Ben Faccini).
- Marcher jusqu'au soir (2019)
Decorations
References
- Blandin, Noel (20 August 2009). "Biographie : Qui est Lydie Salvayre ?". La République des Lettres. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
- "Prix Décembre". Prix Littéraires. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
- Kim Willsher (5 November 2014). "Former psychiatrist Lydie Salvayre wins Prix Goncourt". The Guardian. Retrieved November 5, 2014.
- "Nomination dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres juillet 2015 - Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
- People from Loir-et-Cher
- 1948 births
- Living people
- French medical writers
- French women writers
- Prix Décembre winners
- Prix Goncourt winners
- French people of Spanish descent
- French psychiatrists
- Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- French women psychiatrists
- 20th-century French women physicians
- 20th-century French physicians
- 21st-century French women physicians
- 21st-century French physicians