Joëlle Guillais (née Maury; 10 August 1952 – 19 November 2022) was a French writer.[1]
Joëlle Guillais | |
|---|---|
| Born | Joëlle Maury 10 August 1952 |
| Died | 19 November 2022 (aged 70) Caen, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Writer |
Biography
editOriginally from Alençon, Guillais earned a doctoral degree in history.[2] In 1988, she published La Berthe with Plon, which was described by Michelle Perrot in Libération as "an ethnological document of exceptional quality, as well as a story of great intensity".[3] In 1997, she published the story Agnès E, which sought to give visibility to women's prisons at a time when little attention was given to the affairs of prisoners.[2] In 2008, she wrote and published La pesticide, an avant-garde dystopian novel which covered the dangerous effect of pesticides on human health, for which she received harassment from farmers following its publication.[4]
Guillais directed "Mot A Mot" writing workshops in Paris and Saint-Cyr-la-Rosière.[5] She collaborated with Laurence Verdier to publish a collection of 23 short stories titled 23 mecs comme ça, which reflected male-female relations in contemporary society.[6] In 2019, she published Matins de fer, a novel inspired by the death of three young Romanis in a traffic collision on the A7 autoroute in La Castellane.[7][8] She worked as a portrait painter for the magazine Pays du Perche after having written several columns for the HuffPost.[9]
Guillais died following a stroke in Caen, on 19 November 2022, at the age of 70.[10]
Publications
edit- Les grisettes ou l’imaginaire amoureux au 19e siècle (1985)
- La Chair de l'autre : le crime passionnel au XIXe siècle (1986)
- La Berthe (1991)
- Agnès E. (1997)
- La ferme des orages (1999)
- Les Champs de la colère : roman (1999)
- La Prime aux loups (2000)
- La Teinturerie (2002)
- Barbie Rousse, sujet tabou (2003)
- Les chemins des mots (2004)
- Les causeuses d'Hérouville (2005)
- Mauvaises nouvelles littéraires (2006)
- La Pesticide (2008)
- 23 Mecs comme ça (2017)
- Matins de fer (2019)
References
edit- ^ "Guillais, Joëlle (1952-....)". Bibliothèque nationale de France (in French).
- ^ a b "Joëlle Guillais". Maison des écrivains et de la littérature (in French).
- ^ "La Berthe". Payot Libraire (in French).
- ^ Benhaiem, Annabelle (5 March 2011). "Pesticides: le combat de Joëlle Guillais". L'Express (in French). Retrieved 23 November 2022.
- ^ "Un atelier d'écriture pour recréer du lien". France Info (in French). 24 February 2016. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
- ^ Manfredi, Astrid (23 January 2017). "" 23 mecs comme ça " : un recueil de nouvelles sans eau de rose …". Laisse parler les filles (in French). Retrieved 23 November 2022.
- ^ "Mortagne-au-Perche. Joëlle Guillais raconte les Matins de fer". Ouest-France (in French). Mortagne-au-Perche. 11 December 2019. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
- ^ Benhaiem, Annabelle (8 November 2019). "Avec "Matins de fer" de Joëlle Guillais, le voyage chez les Gitans est sans retour". HuffPost (in French). Retrieved 23 November 2022.
- ^ "La revue Pays du Perche, un magazine qui révèle les trésors du Perche". Ouest-France (in French). Remelard-en-Perche. 27 January 2020. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
- ^ "Orne. Joëlle Guillais, autrice de " La Berthe ", est décédée". Actu.fr (in French). 21 November 2022. Retrieved 23 November 2022.