Catherine Weinzaepflen (born 1 July 1946, Strasbourg) is a French writer
Biography Weinzaepflen spent her childhood in Alsace and the Central African Republic, studied literature in Strasbourg and lives in Paris since 1977. She made many trips to the Middle East (Turkey, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan) which, like Africa, permeate her books.
With Christiane Veschambre, she created and co-directs the literary magazine Land (1981-1984). In 1986, birth of his daughter Fanny whose father is the painter Michel Potage. From 1990 to 2000, she regularly stayed in Los Angeles, and from 2010 to 2014 in Sydney.
She is a member of the Reading Committee of Flammarion (1991-1993), then a member of the Commission Poésie of the Centre national du livre (2003–2006). She has created writing workshops that she continues to lead (École supérieure des Arts décoratifs de Strasbourg, 1996–2010 ); École spéciale d'architecture de Paris (since 2004). She regularly collaborates with the CCP (Cahier Critique de Poésie).
Bibliography Poetry 1976: L'Eau jaune, éditions Traboule 1977: Dans le texte, éditions La Main Bleue 1977: La Distance intime, éditions Coprah 1980: Cracher l'Afrique, Atelier de l'Agneau (Belgium) 1989: Les Maisons, Spectres familiers 2000: Les Mains dans le jaune absent, followed by York &, Le Scorff 2008: Le Temps du tableau, Editions Des femmes-Antoinette Fouque 2012: Ode à un kangourou, Editions de l'Attente 2013: Ô l'explosion des poppies, Editions de l'Attente 2015: avec Ingeborg, Editions Des femmes- Antoinette Fouque
Novels 1977: Isocelles, Des Femmes 1978: La Farnésine, jardins, Des Femmes 1983: Portrait et un rêve, Flammarion, (Prix France Culture) 1985: Am See, Flammarion; L'Atelier des Brisants; Des femmes-Antoinette Fouque, 2007 (radio drama for France Culture broadcast in 1979 under the title La Parole nomade) 1985: Totem, Flammarion, (selected for the prix Médicis) 1989: L'Ampleur du monde, Flammarion 1992: D'où êtes-vous ?, Flammarion 2002: Ismaëla, L'Atelier des Brisants 2003: Allée des Géants, L'Atelier des Brisants 2004: La Place de mon théâtre, Farrago 2006: Orpiment, Des Femmes–Antoinette Fouque 2012: Celle-là, Des femmes-Antoinette Fouque 2014: La Vie sauve, Des femmes-Antoinette Fouque
Theatre 1985: Danube jaune (commissioned by the Comédie-Française), mise-en-scène at Centre Pompidou
Texts 1975: « Entre ON et OFF », in Marguerite Duras, éditions Albatros 1980: « Fin de repas à China Cafe », in Manger, éditions Yellow Now various articles in the magazines Minuit, Traverses, Autrement (Paris mode d'emploi), Première Livraison, Anima, Land, Incendits (Belgium), Recueil, Jungle, Faire-Part, Murs murs, Temporali (Italy), If, Action poétique, etc.
Translations From English A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill, directed by at Festival d'Avignon and at Théâtre national de Chaillot, 1987 Le Filon by Tom Raworth, éditions CIPM/Spectres familiers, 1991 Poèmes by Elizabeth Bishop, If n° 22 Poèmes by Denise Levertov, Action poétique n° 173 From German Le Bonheur sur la colline by Margret Kreidl (collective translation), éditions Al Dante Poèmes by Rose Ausländer, If n° 27 Poèmes by Christine Lavant and Ingeborg Bachmann, Action poétique n° 193 and If n° 32
Cinema Avenue of the Giants (script), adaptation of the novel Allée des Géants Chronique Cinéma & cinémas in the magazine Action poétique (2003–2005)
Literary prizes 1983 : Prix France Culture for Portrait et un rêve 1985 : Bourse de la Fondation Cino Del Duca 2006 : Prix Brantôme for Orpiment
Bibliography Catherine Weinzaepflen, in , vol. 39, p. 4143 Catherine Weinzaepflen in Le Dictionnaire universel des Créatrices, vol. 3, p. 4564
External links Catherine Weinzaepflen on Éditions des femmes Bio-bibliographie Catherine Weinzaepflen on École spéciale d'architecture Avec Ingeborg on Terres de femmes Catherine Weinzaepflen on France Culture Catherine Weinzaepflen on Babelio