Novelist and essayist, author notably ofTo my only desire (Buchet-Chastel, 1965), A girl sewn with white thread (Buchet-Chastel, 1970) or even The troubled man (Grasset, 1989), Claire Gallois died at the age of 87, announced Wednesday, November 20, the organization of the Femina Prize, of which she had been a member for 40 years.
Born in 1937, Claire Gallois began a career as a writer in 1965; she was also a literary columnist in various magazines (Paris Match, Elle, Marie-Claire) as well as for Le Figaro. Author of around twenty novels, she notably met with success in 1992 with Dangerous Hours (Grasset), in which she addressed the question of the difficulty for women in crossing the threshold of fifty.
In 2017, she won the La Coupole prize, former Le Vaudeville prize, for her novel And if you didn't existpublished by Stock.
A woman of opinions and convictions
Claire Gallois joined the jury for the Femina Prize in 1984. “ His opinions, his convictions, his literary passions will be greatly missed by the jury. “, the organization said in a statement.
A blessing will be given on Wednesday, November 27 at 10:00 a.m. in the Basilica of Saint Clotilde, the Femina Prize further specifies.
