Claire Dé is the pen name of Claire Dandurand (born November 19, 1953), a

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writer from

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, ''Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada''.

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, 2002. . p. 281. The twin sister of writer Anne Dandurand, she worked as a theatrical designer before devoting herself to writing. She began her career as co-author with her sister of ''La louve-garou'', a collection of erotic short stories published in 1982, and then wrote a number of theatre pieces in the 1980s. In 1989 she published ''Le désir comme catastrophe naturelle'', another collection of erotic stories which won the Prix Stendhal. In 1991 she published ''Chiens divers (et autres faits ecrasés)'', a short story collection, and ''Sentimental a l'os'', a collection of some of her theatrical plays. She published the novels ''Sourdes amours'' in 1993 and ''Bonheur, oiseau rare'' in 1996, which were subsequently republished in English translations by Lazer Lederhendler as ''Soundless Loves'' (1997) and ''The Sparrow Has Cut the Day in Half'' (1999). At the

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, Lederhendler was shortlisted for the

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for ''The Sparrow Has Cut the Day in Half''. At the

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, Dé was shortlisted for the

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for ''Le cahier d'Hellman'', her translation of ''Hellman's Scrapbook'' by

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. In 2011 Dé published the short story collection ''Hôtel Septième-ciel''."Hôtel Septième-ciel, de Claire Dé: une affaire de style"
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'', November 27, 2011.

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