Gwenaëlle Aubry (born 1971) is a French novelist and philosopher.
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She studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in the Rue d'Ulm and at Trinity College, Cambridge. She graduated with the Doctor of Philosophy. She lectured in ancient philosophy, at the Nancy 2 University, from 1999 to 2002, a research fellow at CNRS since 2002.[1][2] She taught philosophy at the Paris-Sorbonne University.[3]
She has published several books and articles on ancient philosophy and its contemporary reception, and translated Plotinus.
She is the author of five novels: The Devil spotter is the story, haunted by the figure of Persephone, the passion of a teenager to a mature man; The Detached heard the voice of 'a young woman, Margot, sister of Florence Rey distant from the prison where she is incarcerated. She said her love for Peter, his struggle with him for the undocumented, the experience of rebellion and radical rejection. The voice of this prisoner, locked in his camera inside, which still resounds in isolation, a story about the prison, bereavement and deprivation.
Resident of the Villa Medici in 2005, she wrote a novel variation on the ugliness in our lives wears transformations, which confronts the inner monologue of a woman ugly in the aesthetic discourse of indifference of the beautiful and the ugly. Following this, she composed an anthology, The (dis) taste of the ugliness.
She adapted for France Culture, a radio play of The Death of Virgil, by Hermann Broch.
In 2009, she won the Prix Femina for Personne, a story about her father who suffered from manic-depression. [4] From the diary he kept which she found after his death, and also her own memories, she traces the fragmented portrait of a man who was a stranger to himself and the world.[5] [6][7]