Lydie Salvayre

Lydie Salvayre (born Lydie Arjona in 1948) is a French writer. Born in the south of France to Republican refugees from the Spanish Civil War, she went on to study medicine in Toulouse and continues to work as a practicing psychiatrist.^[1]

She has been awarded the Prix Hermes,^{[citation needed]} the Prix Décembre^[2] for her work, and the 2014 Prix Goncourt for Pas pleurer.^[3]

Works

• La Déclaration (1990)
• La Vie commune (1991) - translated into English as Everyday Life (Dalkey Archive Press 2006)
• La Médaille (1993) - translated into English as The Award (Four Walls Eight Windows 1997)
• La Puissance des mouches (1995) - translated into English as The Power of Flies (Dalkey Archive Press 2007)
• La Compagnie des spectres (1997) - translated into English as The Company of Ghosts (Dalkey Archive Press 2006)
• Quelques conseils aux élèves huissiers (1997)
• La Conférence de Cintegabelle (1999) - translated into English as The Lecture (Dalkey Archive Press 2005)
• Les Belles âmes (2000)
• Le Vif du vivant (2001)
• Et que les vers mangent le bœuf mort (2002)
• Contre (2002)
• Passage à l'ennemie (2003)
• La méthode Mila (2005)
• Dis pas ça (2006)
• Lumières sur la CCAS. Les activités sociales des salariés de l'énergie (2006, collective work)
• Portrait de l'écrivain en animal domestique (2007)
• Petit traité d'éducation lubrique (2008)
• BW (2009)
• Hymne (2011)
• 7 femmes (2013)
• Pas pleurer (2014, Prix Goncourt); published in English in 2016 by MacLehose Press as Cry, Mother Spain (translated by Ben Faccini).
• Marcher jusqu'au soir (2019)

Decorations

• Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters (2015)^[4]

References