Nadine Nicole Claire Ribault (née Payet; 20 January 1964 – 15 January 2021) was a French novelist, short story writer and translator.
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| Born | Nadine Nicole Claire Payet January 20, 1964 Paris, France |
| Died | January 15, 2021 (aged 56) Condette, France |
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| Alma mater | La Sorbonne (BA) |
| Spouse | Thierry Ribault |
| Children | 1 |
Life and career
editRibault was born in Paris on 20 January 1964.[1][2] She graduated from La Sorbonne with a bachelor's degree in French literature.[1] She taught French and French literature in France and Japan.[1]
Ribault's first book of short stories Un caillou à la mer was published in 1999. It was translated into English by Jean Anderson and published under the title A Pebble in the Sea.[1] Her first novel Festina Lente was published in 2000.[1]
In 2002 she was the first French recipient of the Randell Cottage Writers' Residency in New Zealand.[1][3] As part of this residency she spent five months living and working at Randell Cottage in Wellington,[4] and wrote her second collection of short stories, Cœur anxieux.[1] She also had a poem published in Poetry New Zealand.[5] In 2012, she said of her experience in New Zealand (translated by Jean Anderson):[3]
Nature is the nourishment that gives us strength for the struggle, and in New Zealand, exactly ten years ago, I was very well nourished. Cliffs, beaches, fjords, bays, lagoons, rivers, volcanoes, mountains, forests, all filled me with their magic and a wonderful energy. I feed from it still, it nourishes my sense of struggle and my dreams.
In 2006 Ribault and Anderson collaborated on the first French translation of Janet Frame's book of short stories, The Lagoon and Other Stories. It was published as Le Lagon et Autres Nouvelles by Éditions des Femmes.[6][7] A review in New Zealand Books describes it as a "tour de force" which respects Frame's language and style choices.[6] In the same year, Ribault's novel Le vent et la lumière was published.[8]
She was married to economist Thierry Ribault, and they had one daughter.[1] Together with Thierry she published Les sanctuaires de l'abîme – chronique du désastre de Fukushima (Éditions de l'Encyclopédie des Nuisances, 2012), a work which criticised the response of the Japanese government to the Fukushima nuclear accident.[9] In 2012 she also published Carnets des Cévennes and Carnets des Cornouailles with Éditions Le mot et le reste.[10]
Ribault's historical novel Les Ardents, set in the 11th century, was published in 2019.[10][11] She died on 15 January 2021 at Condette.[2][12]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h "Nadine Ribault – 2002". Randell Cottage Writers Trust. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ^ a b "Ribault, Nadine (1964-2021) forme internationale". Bibliothèque nationale de France (in French). Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ^ a b "Passing of Nadine Ribault". Randell Cottage Writers Trust. 4 February 2021. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ^ "Writer in Residence". Evening Post. 28 May 2002. p. 2. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ Ribault, Nadine (2003). "Drowned in Mist and Silence". Poetry New Zealand (26). Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ a b Knight, Philip (October 2006). "Frame en français". New Zealand Books. 16 (4): 20. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ^ "Une nouvelle visite à Janet Frame". Le Monde (in French): 3. 21 April 2006. ISSN 0395-2037. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ^ Ribault, Nadine; Anderson, Jean (2011). "Why Two Heads are Sometimes Better than One: Collaborative Translation of Janet Frame's The Lagoon and Other Stories". Commonwealth Essays and Studies. 33 (2): 21–32. doi:10.4000/ces.8014. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ Ribault, Thierry (July 2022). "La résilience : une technologie du consentement ?". Responsabilité & Environnement (in French) (107): 107. ProQuest 2688602000. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ a b "Nadine Ribault". Babelio (in French). Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ Omont, Sébastien (24 September 2019). "Des âmes en feu". En attendant Nadeau (in French). Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ "PAYET Nadine Nicole Claire". matchID - Moteur de recherche des décès (in French). Retrieved 21 March 2024.
External links
edit- "Tears Before Bedtime", short story by Ribault, translated into English by Jean Anderson