Michèle Desbordes

Michèle Desbordes (4 August 1940, Saint-Cyr-en-Val (Loiret) – 24 January 2006, Baule (Loiret), aged 65) was a French writer. A curator of university libraries, she received several awards for her story La Demande devoted to Leonardo da Vinci.

For the poet, see Marceline Desbordes-Valmore.

Biography

After studying literature at the Sorbonne, she became curator in libraries in Parisian universities, then in Guadeloupe in public readings. In 1994, she was appointed director of the University Library of Orléans. From her home in Baule she wrote poems and novels.[1]

Works
  • 1986: Sombres dans la ville où elles se taisent (poetry), Arcane 17
  • 1997: L'Habituée, Éditions Verdier
  • 1999: La Demande, Verdier
  • 2000: Le Commandement, Gallimard
  • 2001: Le Lit de la mer, Gallimard
  • 2004: La Robe bleue, Verdier, inspired by the story of Camille Claudel
  • 2004: Dans le temps qu'il marchait, éditions Laurence Teper
  • 2005: Un été de glycine, Verdier
  • 2006: L'Emprise, Verdier
  • 2006: Artemisia et autres proses, éditions Laurence Teper
  • 2008: Les Petites Terres, éditions Verdier

Distinctions

For her work La Demande, 1999.:[2]

References
  1. "Décès de l'écrivaine Michèle Desbordes". 2006.
  2. Liste des prix de La Demande, on the site of Éditions Verdier.
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