Marie Redonnet is the nom de plume ofMartine L'hospitalier (born 1948, Paris) who is a French writer of poems, novels, essays, short stories, and plays. Her works have been translated into eleven languages.[1][2]
Martine L'hospitalier was born in 1948, her mother's birth name was Redonnet. She studied literature, particularlyJean Genet,[3] and she became a teacher[4] and began writing in the late 1970s.[5] Her first published work was Le Mort & Cie, a collection of poems released in 1985. The following year, she published a collection of short stories entitledDoublures. She followed that with a trilogy of novels:Splendid Hôtel (1986),Forever Valley, andRose Mélie Rose (1987).[1]
Redonnet has taught at theUniversité de la Sorbonne-Nouvelle. From 1995 to 1997, she was responsible for the research of art and language at theCentre national de la recherche scientifique. From 2000 to 2004, she was an advisor for literature at the French embassy inMorocco.[6]
Her books are written in sparse prose that some have compared toSamuel Beckett.[5]
Redonnet and her son are based in Morocco.[3]
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