Michèle Gérard (she wrote under the name Michèle Fabien) (April 2, 1945 – September 10, 1999) was a
Belgian writer and playwright.
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The daughter of ]Albert S. Gérard Albert Stanislaus Gérard (1920-1996) was a Belgian scholar of comparative literature, specializing in African literature. His ''African Language Literatures'' was praised by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
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, a professor of literature, she was born in Genk. She received a PhD PHD or PhD may refer to:
* Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), an academic qualification
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from the University of Liège
The University of Liège (french: Université de Liège), or ULiège, is a major public university of the French Community of Belgium based in Liège, Wallonia, Belgium. Its official language is French. As of 2020, ULiège is ranked in the 301 ...
. With Marc Liebens, she helped create the Ensemble Théâtral Mobile, a Belgian theatre company, and was one its resident writers from 1974.cerebral hemorrhage
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and died a few days later at the age of 54 in Caen
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.Saint-Pierre-la-Vieille
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History
World War II
After the liberation ...
cemetry.
Original works[ ]
* ''Jocaste'' (1981)
* ''Sara Z'' (1982)
* ''Notre Sade'' (1985)
* ''Tausk'' (1987)
* ''Adget et Bérénice'' (1989)
* ''Claire Lacombe'' (1989)
* ''Berty.Albrecht'' (1989)
* ''Déjanire'' (1995)
* ''Charlotte'' (1999)
Translated and/or adapted works[ ]
* '' Maison de poupée'' (Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playw ...
) (1975)
* ''Les Bons Offices'' (Pierre Mertens
Pierre Mertens (born 9 October 1939) is a Belgian French-speaking writer and lawyer who specializes in international law, director of the Centre de sociologie de la littérature at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and literary critic with the ...
) (1980)
* '' Oui'' (Thomas Bernhard
Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard (; 9 February 1931 – 12 February 1989) was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet who explored death, social injustice, and human misery in controversial literature that was deeply pessimistic about modern civilizati ...
) (1981)
* ''Aurelia Steiner'' ( Marguerite Duras) (1982)
* ''Affabulazione'' (Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini (; 5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian poet, filmmaker, writer and intellectual who also distinguished himself as a journalist, novelist, translator, playwright, visual artist and actor. He is considered one of ...
) (1988)
* ''Pylade'' (Pier Paolo Pasolini) (1990)
* ''Calderon'' (Pier Paolo Pasolini) (1990)
* ''Amphitryon
Amphitryon (; Ancient Greek: Ἀμφιτρύων, ''gen''.: Ἀμφιτρύωνος; usually interpreted as "harassing either side", Latin: Amphitruo), in Greek mythology, was a son of Alcaeus, king of Tiryns in Argolis. His mother was named ei ...
'' (Plautus
Titus Maccius Plautus (; c. 254 – 184 BC), commonly known as Plautus, was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the gen ...
) (1992)
* '''' (Christa Wolf
Christa Wolf (; née Ihlenfeld; 18 March 1929 – 1 December 2011) was a German novelist and essayist.
Barbara Gard ...
) (1995)
* ''Une paix royale'' (Pierre Mertens) (1997)
* ''Stabat mater'' ( Antonio Tarantino) (1998)
* ''Œdipe sur la route'' (Henry Bauchau
Henry Bauchau (22 January 1913 – 21 September 2012) was a Belgian psychoanalyst, lawyer, and author of French prose and poetry.
Biography
Henry Bauchau was born in Mechelen, Belgium on 22 January 1913. He became a trial lawyer in Brussels in ...
) (1999)
References
1945 births
1999 deaths
University of Liège alumni
People from Genk
20th-century Belgian dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Belgian women writers
Belgian women dramatists and playwrights
Pseudonymous women writers
20th-century pseudonymous writers
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