Nathalie Léger (born 20 September 1960 in

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, France) is a writer and the executive director of the

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Career

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

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

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, which was held at the Centre Georges-Pompidou 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'' (''Exposition'') (2008), was about the

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

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. In 2018, she published ''La Robe blanche'' (''The White Dress''), 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: Prix du Livre Inter for ''Supplément à la vie de Barbara Loden''

References

External links

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