Marie Ferranti, real name Marie-Dominique Mariotti (; born 1962, in
Lento, Haute-Corse
Lento (; co, Lentu) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica. Since 2015, it is part of the canton of Golo-Morosaglia. The writer Marie Ferranti was born in Lento.
Population
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), is a French writer. She chose the patronym of her maternal great-grandmother as a literary pseudonym.
Her novel ''La Princesse de Mantoue'' won the
Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française
Le Grand Prix du Roman is a French literary award, created in 1914, and given each year by the Académie française. Along with the Prix Goncourt
The Prix Goncourt (french: Le prix Goncourt, , ''The Goncourt Prize'') is a prize in French litera ...
. She was discovered by
Pascal Quignard
Pascal Quignard (; born 23 April 1948) is a French writer born in Verneuil-sur-Avre, Eure. In 2002 his novel ''Les Ombres errantes'' won the Prix Goncourt, France's top literary prize. ''Terrasse à Rome'' (Terrasse in Rome), received the Fren ...
at
éditions Gallimard
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Founded by Gast ...
.
She lives and works in the town of
Saint-Florent, in the
Haute-Corse
Haute-Corse (; co, Corsica suprana , or ; en, Upper Corsica) is (as of 2022) an administrative department of France, consisting of the northern part of the island of Corsica. The corresponding departmental territorial collectivity merged w ...
.
Works
*1995: ''Les Femmes de San Stefano'', novel, (crowned by the
Académie française)
*1996: ''La Chambre des défunts'', novel
*2000: ''La Fuite aux Agriates'', novel
*2002: ''La Princesse de Mantoue'', novel, Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française
*2002: ''Le Paradoxe de l'ordre'', essai sur l'œuvre romanesque de
Michel Mohrt
Michel Mohrt (28 April 1914 – 17 August 2011) was an editor, essayist, novelist and historian of French literature.
Mohrt was born in Morlaix, Finistère. He was elected to the Académie française on 18 April 1985. Mohrt died at the age of ...
*2004: ''La Chasse de nuit'', novel
*2006: ''Lucie de Syracuse'', novel
*2006: ''La Cadillac des Montadori'', novel
*2012: ''Une haine de Corse. Histoire véridique de Napoléon Bonaparte et de Charles-André Pozzo di Borgo'', Grand Prix du Mémorial de la ville d'Ajaccio
*2013: ''Marguerite et les grenouilles. Saint Florent, chroniques, portraits et autres histoires, récits''
*2014: ''Les Maîtres de chant'', narration
External links
''Entretien avec Marie Ferranti - Marguerite et les grenouilles''on La Cause Littéraire
on Corse net.infos
''Marie Ferranti raconte une haine de Corse''on Corse-Matin (27 March 2012)
Marie Ferrantion the site of éditions Gallimard
''La Cadillac des Montadori''on Babelio
''Les maîtres de chant par Marie Ferranti''on Babelio
1962 births
Living people
People from Corsica
20th-century French novelists
21st-century French novelists
21st-century French essayists
20th-century French women writers
Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners
French women novelists
21st-century French women writers
20th-century pseudonymous writers
Pseudonymous women writers
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