Clémence Boulouque
| Clémence Boulouque | |
|---|---|
| Born |
25 June 1977 Paris, France |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | French |
Clémence Boulouque (born 25 June 1977 in Paris) is a French writer, journalist, and literary critic.
Early life and education
The daughter of magistrate Gilles Boulouque, her life switched when her father was appointed anti-terrorist judge in the aftermath of the wave of attacks of 1986, implicating lran. Clémence Boulouque was only thirteen when her father, confronted with terrible political-media pressure, committed suicide on 13 December 1990. It is from this painful experience, revived by her presence in New York on 11 September 2001, that Boulouque's vocation for literature and novel was born. A graduate from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and the ESSEC, Boulouque spent some time in a recruiting firm before moving to New York for the first time in order to do a master's degree in international relations at Columbia University in 2001–2002.
Career
Back in France after New York, she devoted herself to writing, journalism and literary criticism from 2002 to 2007.
In 2003, she wrote her first story, Mort d'un silence, in which she tells the long ordeal that she and her family lived when her father committed suicide.[1]
She wrote in particular in Le Figaro littéraire, Transfuge and also in Lire. She regularly intervened as a chronicler in the program Tout arrive by Arnaud Laporte on France Culture. She was the producer of the series of programs such as À voix nue with Toni Morrison or Amos Oz, as well as a summer series about Marguerite Yourcenar.
In 2005, William Karel made the film adaptation: La Fille du juge. This documentary mixed:
- Archive footage of programs and newscasts ;
- Photos and family movies shot in Super 8 by judge Boulouque ;
- Scenes shot in New York City and featuring the young novelist in person (at 28). The voice-over which "expresses" the words of Clemence, is that of the actress Elsa Zylberstein whom Karel met on the shooting of Van Gogh by Maurice Pialat.
She returned to the United States in 2008 and was awarded a PhD from New York University. She teaches in the religion department at Columbia University.
Main works
- 2003: Mort d'un silence, narrative, Éditions Gallimard, ISBN 2070316890
Crowned by the prix Fénéon ; Adaptation in documentary film in 2005 by director William Karel under the title La Fille du juge, which was nominated for the 2007 César Award in the documentaries category - 2004: Sujets libres, novel
- 2004: Le Goût de Tanger, Mercure de France, ISBN 978-2715224575
- 2005: Chasse à courre, novel, Gallimard, ISBN 2070775097
- 2005: Juives d'Afrique du Nord, with Nicole Serfaty, ISBN 2912019362
- 2005: Au pays des macarons, Mercure de France, ISBN 2715225687
- 2007: Nuit ouverte', novel, Flammarion, ISBN 2-08-120214-X
- 2008: Survivre et vivre : entretiens avec Clémence Boulouque : la fille d'Irène Némirovsky témoigne, Denoël, ISBN 978-2-207-26011-1 ;
- 2011: L’Amour et des poussières, novel, Gallimard, ISBN 978-2-07-013515-8
- 2013: Je n’emporte rien du monde, Gallimard, ISBN 978-2-07-013901-9
References
- ↑ 2003: Mort d'un silence, narrative, Éditions Gallimard, ISBN 2070316890
External links
- Clémence Boulouque on Babelio
- Clémence Boulouque ou la désolation féconde on Le Point (18 January 2013)
- "La Fille du juge" : la petite musique douloureuse de Clémence Boulouque on Le Monde (3 March 2006)
- Clémence Boulouque, romancière française on RFI
- Clémence Boulouque, écrivain en quête du sens de nos existences on La Croix (7 August 2015)
- Clémence Boulouque on ELLE
- Le voyage initiatique de Jacob on Akadem
- Columbia University page