Paule Constant (born 25 January 1944 in

Gan, Pyrénées-Atlantiques Gan (; oc, Gant) is a commune located in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, in the south-west of France. Gan station has rail connections to Pau, Oloron-Sainte-Marie and Bedous. Its mayor has been Mr Francis Pèes (Right Wing ; also Vice ...

) 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 graduated from

Paris-Sorbonne University Paris-Sorbonne University (also known as Paris IV; french: Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV) was a public research university in Paris, France, active from 1971 to 2017. It was the main inheritor of the Faculty of Humanities of the Universit ...

, with a Ph.D.

Awards

* 1998

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 ...

for '' Confidence pour confidence''. * 1989 Grand prize for the novel Académie française

Works

English translations

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Novels

* ''Ouregano'', 1980, Gallimard * ''Propriété privée'', 1981, Gallimard * ''Balta'', 1983, Gallimard * ''Un monde à l'usage des demoiselles'', 1987, Gallimard * ''White Spirit'', 1989, Gallimard - * ''Le Grand Ghâpal'', 1991, Gallimard - Prix Jackie Bouquin * ''La Fille du Gobernator'', 1994, Gallimard * '' Confidence pour confidence'', 1998, Gallimard, * ''Sucre et secret'', 2003, Gallimard, * ''La bête à chagrin: roman'', 2007, Gallimard,

Television documentaries

* for

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: ''l'Education des Jeunes Filles de la Légion d'Honneur'' (1992) ; * for La 5 : in the series ''Mon héros préféré'': "la Princesse de Clèves" (1996) ; * for

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: in the series ''Les grands fleuves racontés par des écrivains'': "L'Amazone" (1997) ; * for La 5 : - in the series ''Galilée'' : "Paule Constant sur les traces de Jean Giono" (2001).

External links

Author's website
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