Florence Delay (born 19 March 1941 in

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) is a French

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and actress.

Biography

The daughter of Marie-Madeleine Carrez and

Jean Delay Jean Delay (14 November 1907, Bayonne – 29 May 1987, Paris) was a French psychiatrist, neurologist, writer, and a member of the Académie française (Chair 17). His assistant Pierre Deniker conducted a test of chlorpromazine on the male mental ...

, Delay studied at the Lycée Jean de La Fontaine and then the

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. In 1962, she played the title role of

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in a movie by

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, ''Procès de Jeanne d'Arc (The Trial of Joan of Arc)''. At 30, she published her first novel, ''Minuit sur les jeux''. She was awarded the

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in 1983 for her novel ''Riche et légère''. With

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of the

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, she compiled, a series of 10 plays about the

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, ''Graal Théâtre,'' from 1977 to 2005. She has been an actress, narrator, or writer in movies by

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, Hugo Santiago,

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and

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. She was elected to the

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on 14 December 2000.

Bibliography

*''Minuit sur les jeux'' (1973) *''Le aïe aïe de la corne de brume'' (1975) *''Graal théâtre'' (in coll. with Jacques Roubaud, 1977–1981) *''L’Insuccès de la fête'' (1980) *''Riche et légère'' (1983) *''Acte de la Passion, in Théâtre espagnol du XVI^e siècle'' (1983) *''Marco Polo, le nouveau livre des merveilles'', (in coll. with Jean Marie Adiaffi, Sony Labou Tansi, Jacques Savoie, Louis Caron, Abdelaziz Kacem, Jacques Lacarrière, Bertrand Visage - 1985) *''Course d’amour pendant le deuil'' (1986) *''L'Éclypse de la balle, d’Arnaldo Calveyra'' (1987) *''Il me semble, Mesdames ou Les Dames de Fontainebleau'' (1987) *''Petites formes en prose après Edison'' (1987) *''"La sortie au jour" in Le Livre sacré de l’ancienne Égypte'' (1987) *''Le divin Narcisse, et autres textes, de Sor Juana Inès de la Cruz'', (in coll. with Frédéric Magne and Jacques Roubaud, 1987) *''La Décadence de l’analphabétisme, de José Bergamín'' (1988) *''Partition rouge. Poèmes et chants des Indiens d’Amérique du Nord'', (in coll. with Jacques Roubaud, 1988) *''La Célestine (version courte), de Fernando de Rojas'' (1989) *''La Solitude sonore du toreo, de José Bergamín'' (1989) *''L’Hexaméron'' (in coll. with Michel Chaillou, Michel Deguy, Natacha Michel, Denis Roche, Jacques Roubaud, 1990) *''Etxemendi'' (1990) *''Semaines de Suzanne'' (in coll. with Patrick Deville, Jean Echenoz, Sonja Greenlee, Harry Mathew, Mark Polizzotti, Olivier Rolin, 1991) *''Les Moitiés, de Ramón Gómez de la Serna'', (in coll. with Pierre Lartigue, 1991) *''Catalina, enquête'' (1994) *''Œillet rouge sur le sable'' (1994) *''La Fin des temps ordinaires'' (1996) *''La Séduction brève'' (1997) *''Six poèmes galiciens, de Federico García Lorca'' (1998) *''L’Homme du Luxembourg, d’Arnaldo Calveyra'' (1998) *''Beauténébreux, de José Bergamín'' (1999) *''Dit Nerval, essai'' (1999) *''Michée, Aggée, Zacharie, Malachie'', (with Maurice Roger and Arnaud Sérandour, 2001) *''Le Grand Théâtre du monde suivi de Procès en séparation de l’Âme et du Corps, de Pedro Calderón de la Basca'' (2004) *''Mon Espagne. Or et Ciel'', Hermann (2008)

Filmography

* ''

The Trial of Joan of Arc ''The Trial of Joan of Arc'' (french: Procès de Jeanne d'Arc) is a 1962 French historical drama film written and directed by Robert Bresson. The title role is played by Florence Delay. Synopsis In 1431, Jeanne d'Arc, a peasant girl who has le ...

'' (1962) * '' Le Jouet criminel'' (1969) (short) * '' Collections privées'' (1979) (segment "Kusa-Meikyu", voice) * '' Écoute voir...'' (1979)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Delay, Florence 1941 births Living people Writers from Paris University of Paris alumni Members of the Académie Française French women novelists Prix Femina winners French women dramatists and playwrights