Hélène de Montferrand (born 1947

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) is a French

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others asp ...

. She grew up in

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and studied at

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and at the

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. Her work continues and "resonates with echoes" the work of Jeanne Galzy. She received the Goncourt prize for a first novel (not to be mistaken with the

Prix Goncourt The Prix Goncourt (french: Le prix Goncourt, , ''The Goncourt Prize'') is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year". The prize carries a symbolic reward o ...

) in 1990 for ''Les amies d'Héloïse''. The novel is an exchange of letters. She contributes regularly to the ''Lesbia'' magazine.

Works

* ''Sonate royale, poèmes'', Paris, les Paragraphes littéraires de Paris, 1970 * ''Les Amies d'Héloïse'', roman, Ed. de Fallois, Paris, 1990 * ''Journal de Suzanne'', roman, Ed. de Fallois, Paris, 1991, * ''Les Enfants d'Héloïse'', Double interligne, Paris, 1997 ; la Cerisaie, Paris, 2002 * ''Avec Elula Perrin, L'Habit ne fait pas la nonne'', Paris, Double interligne, 1998 * ''Avec Elula Perrin, Ne tirez pas sur la violoniste'', Paris, Double interligne, 1999 * ''Retour à Sarcelles, roman des temps prolétariens'', Paris, la Cerisaie : 2004

References

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