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Florence Delay (born March 19 1941) is a French academician and actress. She was born in Paris, is the daughter of Marie-Madeleine Carrez and Jean Delay. She studied at the Lycée Jean de La Fontaine and then at the Sorbonne. In 1962, she played the title role of Joan of Arc in the movie by Robert Bresson, Procès de Jeanne d'Arc. At the age of thirty, she published her first novel, Minuit sur les jeux. She was awarded the Prix Femina in 1983 for her novel Riche et légère. With Jacques Roubaud of the Oulipo, she compiled, from 1977 to 2005, a series of 10 plays about the Arthurian legend, Graal Théâtre. She has been an actress, narrator or writer in movies by Chris Marker, Hugo Santiago, Benoît Jacquot and Michel Deville. She was elected in Académie française, on December 14, 2000.

Bibliography

  • Minuit sur les jeux (1973)
  • Le aïe aïe de la corne de brume (1975)
  • Graal théâtre (in coll. with Jacques Roubaud, 1977-1981)
  • L’Insuccès de la fête (1980)
  • Riche et légère (1983)
  • Acte de la Passion, in Théâtre espagnol du XVIe siècle (1983)
  • Marco Polo, le nouveau livre des merveilles, (in coll. with Jean Marie Adiaffi, Sony Labou Tansi, Jacques Savoie, Louis Caron, Abdelaziz Kacem, Jacques Lacarrière, Bertrand Visage - 1985)*Course d’amour pendant le deuil (1986)
  • L'Éclypse de la balle, d’Arnaldo Calveyra (1987)
  • Il me semble, Mesdames ou Les Dames de Fontainebleau (1987)
  • Petites formes en prose après Edison (1987)
  • “La sortie au jour” in Le Livre sacré de l’ancienne Égypte (1987)
  • Le divin Narcisse, et autres textes, de Sor Juana Inès de la Cruz, (in coll. with Frédéric Magne and Jacques Roubaud, 1987)
  • La Décadence de l’analphabétisme, de José Bergamín (1988)
  • Partition rouge. Poèmes et chants des Indiens d’Amérique du Nord, (in coll. with Jacques Roubaud, 1988)
  • La Célestine (version courte), de Fernando de Rojas (1989)
  • La Solitude sonore du toreo, de José Bergamín (1989)
  • L’Hexaméron (in coll. with Michel Chaillou, Michel Deguy, Natacha Michel, Denis Roche, Jacques Roubaud, 1990)
  • Etxremendi (1990)
  • Semaines de Suzanne (in coll. with Patrick Deville, Jean Echenoz, Sonja Greenlee, Harry Mathew, Mark Polizzotti, Olivier Rolin, 1991)
  • Les Moitiés, de Ramón Gómez de la Serna, (in coll. with Pierre Lartigue, 1991)
  • Catalina, enquête (1994)
  • Œillet rouge sur le sable (1994)
  • La Fin des temps ordinaires (1996)
  • La Séduction brève (1997)
  • Six poèmes galiciens, de Federico García Lorca (1998)
  • L’Homme du Luxembourg, d’Arnaldo Calveyra (1998)
  • Beauténébreux, de José Bergamín (1999)
  • Dit Nerval, essai (1999)
  • Michée, Aggée, Zacharie, Malachie, (with Maurice Roger and Arnaud Sérandour, 2001)
  • Le Grand Théâtre du monde suivi de Procès en séparation de l’Âme et du Corps, de Pedro Calderón de la Basca (2004)
  • Mon Espagne. Or et Ciel, Hermann (2008)

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Preceded by
Jean Guitton
Seat 10
Académie française
2000-
Succeeded by
Incumbent

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