{"id":376721,"date":"2023-11-24T15:47:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T15:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/?post_type=app_professional&#038;p=376721"},"modified":"2024-04-20T05:18:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T05:18:52","slug":"author-on-tour-marie-darrieussecq","status":"publish","type":"app_professional","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/professionals\/author-on-tour-marie-darrieussecq\/","title":{"rendered":"Author on Tour: Marie Darrieussecq"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About Marie Darrieussecq<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Marie Darrieussecq <\/strong>is one of the leading voices in contemporary French literature. Her first novel, <em>Pig Tales<\/em> (<em>Truismes<\/em>, P.O.L.; trans. by Linda Coverdale, The New Press, 1998), was a finalist for France\u2019s prestigious Prix Goncourt in 1996 and became an international bestseller. In 2013, she received the Prix Medicis for her novel <em>Men: A Novel of Cinema and Desire<\/em> (<em>Il faut beaucoup aimer les hommes,<\/em> P.O.L.;&nbsp; trans. by Penny Hueston, Semiotext(e), 2016)<em>.<\/em> Marie Darrieussecq has also worked as a translator and psychoanalyst. In 2022, she was a resident at Villa Albertine.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/9781635901771\/sleepless\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1613\" height=\"2400\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/US-Cover-Sleepless.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-377403\" style=\"width:300px;height:undefinedpx\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/US-Cover-Sleepless.jpg 1613w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/US-Cover-Sleepless-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/US-Cover-Sleepless-688x1024.jpg 688w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/US-Cover-Sleepless-768x1143.jpg 768w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/US-Cover-Sleepless-1032x1536.jpg 1032w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/US-Cover-Sleepless-1376x2048.jpg 1376w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1613px) 100vw, 1613px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3>About <em>Sleeplees: A Memoir of Insomnia<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>(trans. by Penny Hueston, Semiotext(e), 2023)<\/p>\n<p>Plagued by insomnia for twenty years, Marie Darrieussecq studies, in her book <em>Sleepless<\/em>, the causes, implications and consequences of sleeplessness. Inspired by her personal experience, Darrieussecq also turns to literature, geopolitical history, and psychoanalysis to better understand where insomnia comes from and what it might mean. Raging between autobiography, clinical observation, and criticism, <em>Sleepless<\/em> is a graceful, inventive meditation by one of the most daring, inventive novelists writing today.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sleepless<\/em> was released in the United States in September 2023.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/9781635901771\/sleepless\/\">Find more information here.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Program<\/h3>\n<p>Marie Darrieussecq will be on tour in the US in April 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Her public program will include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Saturday, Apr 6: conversation with Violaine Huisman @ <a href=\"https:\/\/fiaf.org\/event\/2024-04-darrieussecq-talk\/\">FIAF Montclair<\/a> (Montclair, NJ) \u2013 event in English;<\/li>\n<li>Sunday, Apr 7: storytime @ <a href=\"https:\/\/fiaf.org\/event\/2024-04-darrieussecq-story-time\/\">FIAF Montclair<\/a> (Montclair, NJ) \u2013 event in French &amp; English;<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday, Apr 10: conversation with Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn @ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.albertine.com\/events\/sleepless-an-evening-with-marie-darrieussecq-and-colm-toibin\/\">Albertine<\/a> (New York, NY) \u2013 event in English;<\/li>\n<li>Thursday, Apr 11: conversation @ <a href=\"https:\/\/frenchlibrary.org\/events\/marie-darrieussecq-11-april-2024\/\">French Library &#8211; Alliance Fran\u00e7aise Boston &amp; Cambridge<\/a> (Boston, MA) \u2013 event in English.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information, please email Valentine Richet at <a href=\"mailto: valentine.richet@villa-albertine.org\" data-cke-saved-href=\"mailto: valentine.richet@villa-albertine.org\">valentine.richet@villa-albertine.org<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":377467,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[213],"app_city_tax":[214,217],"app_professional_category":[260],"app_professional_content_type":[254],"class_list":["post-376721","app_professional","type-app_professional","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-literature","app_city_tax-bos","app_city_tax-nyc","app_professional_category-books-ideas","app_professional_content_type-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Author on Tour: Marie Darrieussecq - Villa Albertine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/professionals\/author-on-tour-marie-darrieussecq\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Author on Tour: Marie Darrieussecq - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"About Marie Darrieussecq Marie Darrieussecq is one of the leading voices in contemporary French literature. 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