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French writer (born 1968)
Julie Wolkenstein
Julie Wolkenstein in 2019
BornJulie Poirot-Delpech
1968 (age 55–56)
Paris, France
Occupation(s)Writer and professor of comparative literature at the University of Caen
Notable work
  • Adèle et moi
  • L’Excuse

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 [fr].

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

Works

Novels

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

References

  1. Didier Jacob. "Faut-il retraduire les chefs-d'œuvre ?". Retrieved 11 January 2017.

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