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Hélène de Monferrand
(1947 - living) France

Hélène de Monferrand

Novelist

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Born in Paris to a family of impoverished minor nobles, de Monferrand spent her childhood as a privileged European in pre-independence Algeria. Back in paris, she attended the prestigious Lycée Jules Ferry, followed by university studies at Nanterre and the Sorbonne. Her academic qualifications include a first degree in classics and a postgraduate diploma in accountancy.

Formerly head of financial services at a Parisian hospital, she now works in the French press. She also works, unpaid, as an editor and as treasurer of Lesbia Magazine, a buoyant French lesbian magazine of 18 years' standing.

She received the Goncourt prize for a first novel (not to be mistaken with the Prix Goncourt) in 1990 for Les amies d'Héloïse. She has lived with her present female partner since 1997.

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Her work include:

  • Les amies d'Héloïse (Héloïse's Friends, 1990)
  • Journal de Suzanne (Suzanne's Diary, 1991)
  • Les enfants d'Héloïse (Héloïse's Children, 1997)
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