Trivia

Elected at the 10th chair in the famous "Académie Française", on December the 14th 2000.

Author, university professor, she is the first daughter elected to the Académie française after the sons of many others like the Rostands and Dumas were.

Her artist name is her mother's maiden name.

She was a drama columnist for La Nouvelle Revue française (1978-1985), and a member of the reading committee of the Comédie-Française (2002-2006).

After obtaining her Spanish degree, she taught general and comparative literature at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle.

After studying at the École du Vieux-Colombier, she was then a trainee stage manager at the Festival d'Avignon, assistant to Raymond Rouleau at the Théâtre du Gymnase, and to Georges Wilson at the Théâtre national populaire (TNP).

Delay was a juror for the Prix Femina (1978-1982), a member of the reading committee of Éditions Gallimard (1979-1987).

Florence attended the Lycée Jean de La Fontaine and then studied Spanish at Faculté des lettres de Paris and at the Sorbonne.

Delay notably wrote novels, essays and plays (in collaboration with Jacques Roubaud) and translated texts from Spanish.

She translated La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas, staged by Antoine Vitez in 1989; and then, in another version, by Christian Schiaretti, at the TNP in 2011, as well as works from the Spanish Golden Age (Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Vega).

In 1962, aged 20, she played the title role of Joan of Arc in Procès de Jeanne d'Arc (The Trial of Joan of Arc) by Robert Bresson.

Florence Delay was a French writer and actress.

Florence Delay was awarded the Prix Femina in 1983 for her novel Riche et légère, the Prix François-Mauriac in 1990 for Etxemendi, the Grand Prix du Roman de la Ville de Paris in 1999 and the Prix de l'Essai de l'Académie française for Dit Nerval.

With Jacques Roubaud of the Oulipo, she compiled Graal Théâtre, a series of ten plays about the Arthurian legend, from 1977 to 2005.

She was an actress, narrator or writer in movies by Chris Marker, Hugo Santiago, Benoît Jacquot, Emilio Maillé, and Michel Deville.

Friend from teenage of Anne Wiazemsky.