Julie Wolkenstein

Julie Wolkenstein (née Julie Poirot-Delpech) is a French writer born in 1968 in Paris. She is the daughter of academician Bertrand Poirot-Delpech and, by her mother, the granddaughter of French industrialist Maurice Jordan.

Julie Wolkenstein
Born
Julie Poirot-Delpech

1968
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
OccupationWriter and professor of compared literature at the University of Caen
Notable work
  • Adèle et moi
  • L’Excuse

A professor of compared literature at the University of Caen, she wrote a thesis on Henry James.

Works

Novels

  • 1999: Juliette ou la paresseuse, Paris, Éditions P.O.L., 262 p. ISBN 2-86744-669-4
  • 2000: L’Heure anglaise, Paris, P.O.L., 189 p. ISBN 2-86744-741-0
  • 2001: Colloque sentimental, Paris, P.O.L., 344p. ISBN 2-86744-843-3, prix Ève Delacroix 2002.[1]
  • 2004: Happy end, Paris, P.O.L., 199 p. ISBN 2-84682-050-3
  • 2008: L’Excuse, Paris, P.O.L., 344 p. ISBN 978-2-84682-271-8
  • 2013: Adèle et moi, Paris, P.O.L., 600 p. ISBN 978-2-8180-1737-1

Essays, translations

  • 2000: La Scène européenne : Henry James et le romanesque en question, Paris, Éditions Honoré Champion, coll. « Bibliothèque de littérature générale et comparée », 359 p. ISBN 2-7453-0249-3
  • 2006: Les Récits de rêves dans la fiction, Paris, Éditions Klincksieck, 171 p. ISBN 2-252-03584-6
  • 2011: Francis Scott Fitzgerald, translation by Julie Wolkenstein, The Great Gatsby, under the title Gatsby, Paris, P.O.L, 278 p. ISBN 978-2-8180-1286-4[2]
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gollark: Some offense.
gollark: ++delete <@432069474858958848> for really just being quite bad
gollark: ++delete --admin-override-undelete all gollark applications
gollark: MWAHAHAHAHA! Mine will look better by comparison with nothing!

References

  1. Prix Ève-Delacroix on the site of the Académie française
  2. Didier Jacob. "Faut-il retraduire les chefs-d'œuvre ?". Retrieved 11 January 2017.
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