Clara Dupont-Monod

2018.

Clara Dupont-Monod (born 7 October 1973, in Paris) is a French woman of letters and journalist.

Journalism

She began her career as a journalist for the magazine Cosmopolitan then joined Marianne as a senior reporter at age 24.^[1] In 2007, she became editor-in-chief of the cultural pages of Marianne. At the same time, she regularly intervened on the radio in the program On refait le monde broadcast on RTL and presented by Nicolas Poincaré.

On August 31, 2009, she joined the staff of the La Matinale program on Canal+. In the autumn of 2011, she was one of the columnists of the radio show Les Affranchis on France Inter. At the beginning of 2012, she presented the literary program Clara et les chics livres, every saturdays on France Inter, accompanied by two columnists. During the year 2013-2014, she conducted the political interview of 7:50 of the matinale on France Inter presented by Patrick Cohen, replacing Pascale Clark.^[2] She was in turn replaced at the beginning of 2014 by Léa Salamé.^[3]

Since September 2014, she has been hosting a literary column in the news program Si tu écoutes, j'annule tout on France Inter.

Novels

She publishes her first text, Eova Luciole, in 1998. La Folie du roi Marc portrays the forgotten husband of Yseut, in the myth of Tristan and Iseult. Histoire d'une prostituée tells the daily and the psyche of a prostitute, whom the writer met and followed for a year. Her fourth novel, La Passion selon Juette, describes the struggle of a twelfth-century woman who refuses the dictates of a world where women have no say in the face of an all-powerful Church, relying on the biography of Yvette of Huy written in medieval Latin by his friend, the religious Hugues de Floreffe.

This novel obtained the prix Laurent-Bonelli Virgin-Lire which was awarded for the first time. it was retained in the Prix Feminas list where it remained until the last list of the 2007 prix Goncourt. In 2011 she published Nestor rend les armes, a text about an obese man. This novel was retained on the first list of the 2011 Femina.^[4]

On 4 December 2014 she was awarded the prize of the magazine Point de vue, for her book on Eleanor of Aquitaine, Le roi disait que j'étais diable^[5] which also earned her the Prix Maurice Genevoix.

Bibliography

References

External links

• Clara Dupont-Monod on Babelio
• Clara Dupont-Monod on L'Express
• N'ayons plus peur des fous, la chronique de Clara Dupont Monod on YouTube
• Publications by Clara Dupont-Monod on CAIRN
• L'homme par qui la pilule vint aux femmes on Le Huffington Post