Detambel, Régine

Biography

Born in 1963, Régine Detambel has been creating a literary oeuvre of the first order since 1990. Most of her works have been published by Julliard, Le Seuil and Gallimard. A Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, Régine Detambel is also the winner of the Prix Anna de Noailles awarded by the Académie française. Actes Sud has published two of her essays, Le Syndrome de Diogène : éloge des vieillesses (2008) and Les livres prennent soin de nous (2015), and four of her novels: Son corps extrême (2011), Opéra sérieux (2012), La Splendeur (2014) and Le Chaste Monde (2015).

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