Dominique Schneidre (born Dominique Schneider; July 8, 1942) is a French novelist.

Early life

Dominique Schneidre was born on July 8, 1942.Schneidre, Dominique (1942-....)

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Her father, Charles Schneider, was a businessman. Her mother,

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, was an actress. Her paternal grandfather,

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, was a businessman. Her paternal great-great-grandfather, Eugène Schneider, was the co-founder, with her paternal great-great-granduncle Adolphe Schneider, of Schneider-Creusot in 1836. The company became known as Schneider Electric in 1999. Her maternal great-grandfather, Jules Guesde, was a journalist and Socialist politician.Tami Williams, ''Germaine Dulac: A Cinema of Sensations'', Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2014, p. 16

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Career

Schneider started her career as a psychoanalyst. She is a novelist.Académie française: Dominique Schneider
/ref> She has written seven novels. She has also co-written a children's book and a biography about her family. Schneider was the recipient of the

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in 2002 for ''

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''. Her 2014 novel, ''Avons-nous assez navigué'', is about an elderly woman who goes to the

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to see '' Eugene Onegin''.Dominique Schneidre : Tout est encore possible
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'', June 30, 2014 There, she meets an old lover, Antoine, and tries to rekindle their romance.

Personal life

She lives in an apartment overlooking the Jardin du Luxembourg in the

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of Paris.

Bibliography

Novels

*''Atteinte à la mémoire des morts'' (Paris: Éditions Robert Laffont, 1987, 301 pages). *''Les Chagrins d'éternité'' (Paris: Éditions Robert Laffont, 1988, 187 pages). *''La Capitane'' (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1990, 282 pages). *''Gratin'' (Paris: Éditions JC Lattès, 1993, 175 pages). *''Le Corps principal'' (Paris: Éditions Albin Michel, 1997, 313 pages). *''

'' (Paris, Éditions Fayard, 2001, 359 pages).pages). *''Avons-nous assez navigué'' (Paris: Éditions JC Lattès, 2014, 200 pages).

Children's book

*''Les Secrets d’Illan illustrés par Cézanne'' (with Lucien Chaminade; Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Éditions Calmann-Lévy, 1995, 26 pages).

Biography

*''Les Schneider, Le Creusot : une famille, une entreprise, une ville : 1836-1960'' (with Caroline Mathieu, Bernard Clément; Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Éditions Fayard, Le Creusot, Écomusée, 1995, 366 pages).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schneidre, Dominique Living people 1942 births Writers from Paris French psychoanalysts 20th-century French novelists 21st-century French novelists