Awarded Prix Formentor (2025).
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Hélène Cixous
Hélène Cixous is a French writer, playwright and literary critic. During her academic career, she was primarily associated with the Centre universitaire de Vincennes, which she co-founded in 1969 and where she created the first centre of women's studies at a European university. Known for her experimental writing style and great versatility as a writer and thinker, she has written more than sevent…
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entertainment · French writer (born 1937) · poet · essayist · playwright · scholar of English · women's rights activist · philosopher of language · literary critic · university teacher · philosopher · film screenwriter · also Hélène Cixous, Helen Cixous, Helene Cixous, Cixous
Born 5 June 1937 · Q234964
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2025· 1 entry
2024· 1 entry
RTBF: L’écrivaine Hélène Cixous : "Les gens qui naissent avec la paix, qu’est-ce que la guerre pour eux ?"
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2023· 2 entries
The Nation: Hélène Cixous, a Poet Among Theorists
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Awarded Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit (2023).
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2022· 1 entry
Marie Claire: Hélène Cixous : "L'âge, c'est l'endurance, c'est un combat"
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2021· 2 entries
Télérama: Podcast : Hélène Cixous, une octogénaire à la page sur France Inter
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Awarded The prize of the BNF (2021).
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2020· 1 entry
L'Humanité: Hélène Cixous : « La littérature nous sert à apprendre à lire le monde »
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2019· 1 entry
Radio France Internationale: Retour à Osnabrück pour Hélène Cixous
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2018· 1 entry
Awarded Grand prix du théâtre (2018).
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2017· 2 entries
Awarded Francine and Antoine Bernheim Award for Arts, Literature and Science (2017).
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rts: Hélène Cixous, une voix philosophique qui dit l'incertitude
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2016· 1 entry
Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (2016).
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2014· 4 entries
Le Temps: Hélène Cixous raconte la fin d’Homère et d’Eve, deux noms que portaient à merveille sa mère, sage-femme de 103 ans
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Awarded Prix Marguerite Duras (2014).
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Awarded Prix de la langue française (2014).
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Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (2014).
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2013· 1 entry
Le Temps: Hélène Cixous, l’écriture ailée
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2012· 1 entry
Télérama: La peinturlire d'Hélène Cixous
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2004· 1 entry
Le Monde.fr: Hélène Cixous, sur la scène du rêve et de l'amitié
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2001· 1 entry
Le Monde.fr: Hélène Cixous et sa mère
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1975· 2 entries
Cixous published her most influential article "Le Rire de la Méduse" ("The Laugh of the Medusa"), which was revised by her, translated into English by Paula Cohen and Keith Cohen, and released in English in 1976
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Was (after she revised it) translated into English by Paula Cohen and Keith Cohen in 1976
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1974· 1 entry
Found the University's centre for women's studies, the first in Europe
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1969· 3 entries
Awarded Prix Médicis (1969).
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And where she created the first centre of women's studies at a European university
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With her first work of fiction, Dedans (Inside), a semi-autobiographical novel which won the Prix Médicis and explored the themes of identity, memory, death and writing
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1968· 3 entries
Cixous published her doctoral dissertation L'Exil de James Joyce ou l'Art du remplacement (The Exile of James Joyce, or the Art of Displacement) and the following year she published her first novel, Dedans (Inside), a se
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Following the French student riots, Cixous was charged with founding the University of Paris VIII, "created to serve as an alternative to the traditional French academic environment
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Studied at Faculty of Arts of Paris, doctorate in France (1968).
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1962· 1 entry
Served as maître assistante at the Sorbonne from 1965 to 1967, and was appointed maître de conférence at Paris Nanterre University in 1967
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1961· 1 entry
By the Organisation armée secrète, and joined Cixous in Bordeaux
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1955· 1 entry
With whom she had three children, Anne-Emmanuelle (b
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1937· 1 entry
Born 1937-06-05.
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