Dominique Barbéris
French writer
Dominique Barbéris (born 1958) is a French novelist, author of literary studies and university professor, specializing in stylistics and writing workshops.
Biography
Born in 1958 in Cameroon to a French family from Nantes. Dominique Barberis studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and Sorbonne University in Paris after her childhood in Nantes, then in Brussels. She began teaching literature at a high school in Boulogne-Billancourt before joining an insurance company as head of communications. She later taught in several other schools. She was then appointed professor at the University of Paris IV (now Sorbonne University) in the foreign languages and applied foreign languages department, and then at the French language department in which she runs stylistic courses and novel writing workshops.
Novelist
Author of 11 novels and stories, she devotes a large part of her activity to writing. Her writing has been widely praised by the French press, including in Le Monde, Le Figaro, and various press reviews.
Her eleventh novel, Une façon d'aimer (A way of loving) received in 2023 the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française, one of the major French literary prizes. It tells the story of Madeleine, a discreet and melancholic beauty from the 1950s who resembles the French actress Michèle Morgan, whos leaves her native Brittany to follow her husband to Cameroon and finds herself immersed in a foreign, violent, and magnificent world.
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