Alina Reyes (born Aline Patricia Nardone on 9 February 1956) is a French writer, best known for her literary treatment of

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Biography

She was born at

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. Originally a freelance

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, she devoted herself to fiction after a stay in

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. Reyes acquired notoriety with the success of her first novel, '' The Butcher'', which was translated into numerous languages and adapted for the theatre; like many of her subsequent novels and essays, it showed a concern with contemporary eroticism and how to treat it in

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. She now splits her time between

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and the

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Selected works

* ''Le Boucher'', 1988 ('' The Butcher'') * ''Lucie au Long Cours'', 1990 ('' Lucie's Long Voyage'') * ''Au Corset qui Tue'', 1992 ('' The Fatal Bodice'') * ''Quand tu Aimes, il Faut Partir'', 1993 ('' When You Love You Must Depart'') * ''Derrière la Porte'', 1994 ('' Behind Closed Doors'') * ''Satisfaction'', 2002 ('' Satisfaction'') * ''Politique de l'Amour'' (''

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'') * ''La séptima noche'', 2004 ('' La septiéme nuit'') * ''El cuaderno de Rosa'', 2007 ('' Le carnet de Rose'')

External links

French blog of the author : "Le Journal d'Alina Reyes"
1956 births Living people 20th-century French non-fiction writers French erotica writers 20th-century French women writers Women erotica writers {{France-writer-stub