Nathalie Léger (born 20 September 1960 in

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, France) is a writer and the executive director of the Institute for Contemporary Publishing Archives.

Career

Nathalie Léger was curator of several exhibitions, notably ''Le Jeu et la Raison'', dedicated to

Antoine Vitez Antoine Vitez (; 20 December 1930 – 30 April 1990) was a French actor, director, and poet. He became a central character and influence on the French theater in the post-war period, especially in the technique of teaching drama. He was also tr ...

(Festival d'Avignon 1994), ''L'Auteur et son éditeur'' (IMEC, 1998) and the exhibition

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, which was held at the

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in 2002, and in 2007, the exhibition

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, in the same place. She directed the five-volume edition of the ''Écrits sur le théâtre'' by Antoine Vitez ( 1994–98) and established, annotated and presented that of the last two courses of Roland Barthes at the

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''La Préparation du roman'' (

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-IMEC, 2002). She is the author of a personal essay entitled ''Les Vies silencieuses de Samuel Beckett'' (, 2006). Between 2008 and 2018, she published a conceptual trilogy about the lives of women. The first, ''L'Exposition'' (2008), was about the Countess of Castiglione and won the Prix Lavinal Printemps des lecteurs in 2009. In 2012, she published '' ( Suite for Barbara Loden)'', devoted to the American actress and director

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. Since its publication, the book has been critically very successful and was awarded the

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on 4 June 2012.''Prix du livre Inter 2012''
on the site of

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. In 2018, she published ''La Robe blanche'', about

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Bibliography

* ''Les Vies silencieuses de Samuel Beckett'' (2006, Allia). * ''L'Exposition'' (2008, Éditions P.O.L). ''Exposition'', trans. Amanda de Marco (2019). * ''Supplément à la vie de Barbara Loden'' (2012, Éditions P.O.L). ''Suite for Barbara Loden'', trans. Natasha Lehrer and Cécile Menon (2015). * ''La Robe blanche'' (2018, Éditions P.O.L). ''The White Dress'', trans. Natasha Lehrer (2020). *''Suivant l'azur'' (2020, Éditions P.O.L).

Awards and honours

* 2009: Prix Lavinal Printemps des lecteurs for ''L'Exposition'' * 2012:

for ''Supplément à la vie de Barbara Loden''

References

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