Joëlle Guillais | |
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Born | Joëlle Maury 10 August 1952 |
Died | 19 November 2022
Caen, France | (aged 70)
Nationality | French |
Occupation | Writer |
Joëlle Guillais ( née Maury; 10 August 1952 – 19 November 2022) was a French writer. [1]
Originally 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]
Joëlle Guillais | |
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Born | Joëlle Maury 10 August 1952 |
Died | 19 November 2022
Caen, France | (aged 70)
Nationality | French |
Occupation | Writer |
Joëlle Guillais ( née Maury; 10 August 1952 – 19 November 2022) was a French writer. [1]
Originally 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]