Noëlle Châtelet (); born Noëlle Jospin, 16 October 1944) is a French writer and lecturer in the humanities at the Paris Descartes University (Paris V). She is the author of essays, collections of short stories and novels translated into several languages.
Life and career Noëlle Châtelet obtained her PhD under Gilles Deleuze in 1976 at the University of Paris VIII with a thesis in sociology titled Le Corps à corps culinaire: images et institutions [The Culinary Melee: Images and Institutions] about psychosocial and cultural aspects of eating disorders in young women. She was director of the French Institute of Florence, Italy, from 1989 to 1991. Since 2003, she has been the vice-president of the Society of Men of Letters of France.
She has also participated as an actress in numerous works for television and film until 1987.
She is the widow of the philosopher François Châtelet. She is the sister of Lionel Jospin.
Honours 1987: Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle, Histoires de bouche 2009: Chevalier of the Legion of Honour 2016: Officer of the Ordre national du Mérite
Bibliography Non-fiction The Culinary Melee A Contre-sens, 1989 A table, 1992 Le Baiser d'Isabelle, 2007
Fiction Histoires de bouches, Mercure de France, 1986/Gallimard Folio, 1988. The new Prix Goncourt in 1987. The Short scale, Gallimard, 1991. Folio, 1993. The Lady in Blue, Folio, 1997. Price Anna de Noailles, the French Academy. La Femme Coquelicot, 1997 Le Petite aux tournesols, 1998 La Tête en bas, 2002, Adaptation of the novel and staged a performance of contemporary mime by Compagnie Vahram Zaryan,2013 La Dernière Leçon, 2004 – adapted into the 2015 film The Final Lesson Au pays des vermeilles, 2009
References
External links Page on Noëlle Châtelet on SACD site