Leslie Kaplan
{{short description|American-born French writer (born 1943)}}
{{Infobox writer
|name = Leslie Kaplan
|image = Leslie Kaplan (2018).jpg
|birth_date = 1943
|birth_place = New York City, New York
|genre = novel, essay, theatre
|nationality = French}}
Leslie Kaplan (born 1943) is an American-born French writer.{{cite web |url=https://www.sgdl.org/223-presentation-des-personnes/3154-leslie-kaplan |title=Leslie Kaplan |publisher=Société des gens de lettres |language=fr}}
She was born in New York City and grew up in Paris. She studied philosophy, history and psychology and then worked for two years in a factory. Kaplan took part in the events of May 1968. She published her first book in 1982 L'Excès-l'usine, which received favourable comments from authors Marguerite Duras and Maurice Blanchot.
Awards
In 2017, she received a prize from the Société des gens de lettres recognizing her work.{{cite news |url=https://www.humanite.fr/la-femme-du-jour-leslie-kaplan-636431 |title=La femme du jour. Leslie Kaplan |date=May 23, 2017 |newspaper=L'Humanité |language=fr}}
Works
- L'Excès - l'usine (1982)
- Le Livre des ciels (1983)
- Le Criminel (1985)
- Le Pont de Brooklyn (1987)
- L'Epreuve du passeur (1988)
- Le Silence du diable (1989)
- Les Mines de sel (1993)
- Depuis maintenant, Miss Nobody Knows (1996)
- Les Prostituées philosophes (1997)
- Le Psychanalyste (1999)
- Les Amants de Marie (2002)
- Les Outils (2003)
- Fever (2005)
- Toute ma vie j'ai été une femme (2008)
- Mon Amérique commence en Pologne (2009)
- Louise, elle est folle (2011)
- Millefeuille (2012) received the Prix Wepler{{cite news |url=https://www.la-croix.com/Culture/Actualite/Le-Prix-Wepler-a-Leslie-Kaplan-_NG_-2012-11-12-874844 |title=Le Prix Wepler à Leslie Kaplan |date=November 12, 2012 |language=fr}}
- Déplace le ciel (2013)
- Mathias et la Révolution (2016)
References
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