Noëlle Châtelet (French: [nɔɛl ʃɑtlɛ]); 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.

Noëlle Châtelet
Born
Noëlle Jospin

(1944-10-16) 16 October 1944 (age 81)
Meudon, France
OccupationWriter
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Paris VIII
Gilles Deleuze
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Paris V

Life and career

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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.[1] 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.[2]

Honours

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Bibliography

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Non-fiction

  • The Culinary Melee
  • A Contre-sens, 1989
  • A table, 1992
  • Le Baiser d'Isabelle, 2007
Noëlle Châtelet and Vahram Zaryan / Forum Européen de Bioéthique – Forum Culture / Strasbourg

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[6] – adapted into the 2015 film The Final Lesson
  • Au pays des vermeilles, 2009[2]

References

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  1. McIlvanney, Siobhán (2016). "Grandmother Through the Looking-Glass: Perspectives on (Anti-)Ageing in Noëlle Châtelet's Au pays des vermeilles". The Modern Language Review. 111 (4): 975–987. doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.111.4.0975. ISSN 0026-7937. JSTOR 10.5699/modelangrevi.111.4.0975. Full access available to users of The Wikipedia Library.
  2. 1 2 McIlvanney (2016).
  3. "Goncourt de la Nouvelle". Académie Goncourt (in French). Retrieved 2 March 2026.
  4. "Décret du 10 avril 2009 portant promotion et nomination". Légifrance (in French). 10 April 2009. Retrieved 2 March 2026.
  5. "Décret du 13 mai 2016 portant promotion et nomination". Légifrance (in French). 13 May 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2026.
  6. DiBenedetto, Lucia A. (2006). "Review of La Dernière Leçon". The French Review. 79 (6): 1384–1385. ISSN 0016-111X. JSTOR 25480544. Full access available to users of The Wikipedia Library.
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