Béatrice Commengé

Béatrice Commengé (born 1949 in Algiers) is a French novelist and translator.

Biography After a Ph.D. on Virginia Woolf, she embarked on a master's degree in dance which culminated in the publication of her essay "The Dance of Nietzsche".

Her first novel, La Nuit est en avance d'un jour, was published in 1985 at Éditions Orban. She translated the entire non-expunged Journal of Anaïs Nin.

A great traveler, she has contributed to many literary journals such as L'Infini, Les Cahiers de l'Herne, L'Atelier du roman, on the internet or the magazine .

Béatrice Commengé obtained the Prix Cazes in 2004 for her book Et il ne pleut jamais, naturellement which was also selected for the prizes Femina and Wepler.

Works 1985: La Nuit est en avance d'un jour, Orban 1988: La Danse de Nietzsche, Gallimard 1989: Le Ciel du voyageur, Gallimard 1991: Henry Miller, ange, clown, voyou, Plon 1995: Alexandrines, La Table Ronde 1998: L'Homme immobile, Gallimard 2003: Et il ne pleut jamais, naturellement, Gallimard 2007: En face du jardin - Six jours dans la vie de Rainer Maria Rilke, Flammarion, 2009: Voyager vers des noms magnifiques, 2011: L'occasion fugitive, 2012: Flâneries anachroniques, Éditions Finitude 2015: Le Paris de Modiano, Éditions Alexandrines 2016: Une vie de paysages, 2020: Alger, rue des Bananiers, Éditions Verdier