Marguerite Claude Françoise Xenakis (née Gargouïl; 27 September 1930 – 12 February 2018) was a French novelist and journalist, born in Blois, Loir-et-Cher. She started her literary career in the early 1960s, and became better known during the 1980s, when she started working at Le Matin de Paris, a daily newspaper, and for Télématin, a breakfast television news show. She chaired the judging panel for the literary prize 30 Million Friends.
Françoise Xenakis | |
|---|---|
| Born | Marguerite Claude Françoise Gargouïl 27 September 1930 |
| Died | 12 February 2018 (aged 87) Courbevoie, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 1 |
In 1953, she married Iannis Xenakis, who later went on to become an important classical composer of the post-war avant-garde. Their daughter Mâkhi Xenakis, sculptor and painter, was born in 1956.
Selected works
edit- Le Petit Caillou (1963)
- Des dimanches et des dimanches (1965)
- Aux lèvres pour que j'aie moins soif (1970)
- Écoute (1971)
- Et alors les morts pleureront (1972)
- Moi, j'aime pas la mer (1974)
- L'écrivain ou La sixième roue du carrosse (1975)
- Elle lui dirait dans l'île (1978)
- La Natte coupée (1982)
- Zut! on a encore oublié Madame Freud (1984)
- La Vie exemplaire de Rita Capuchon (1988)
- Le Temps usé (1992)
- Attends-moi (1993; won the Prix des libraires the same year)
- Désolée, mais ça ne se fait pas (1995)
- Chéri, tu viens pour la photo (1999)
- Mouche-toi, Cléopâtre (1999)
- Maman, je veux pas être empereur (2001)
- Regarde, nos chemins se sont fermés (2002)
- Danielle Mitterrand : la petite fille qui voulait être Antigone (2006)
References
edit- Bosquet, Alain. 1985. Les épouses de Françoise Xenakis, Figaro No. 12584 (15 Feb 1985), 36.
- Xenakis, Françoise, and Waldburg-Wolfegg, Andreas; Sarah Green; Maro Elliott. "Mme Xenakis in Conversation". International Contemporary Ensemble. Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 20 September 2009.
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