Christine Jordis

Christine Jordis real name Marie-Christine Morel de Foucaucourt (born 4 January 1942 in Algiers) is a French writer, journalist and editor, a specialist in English literature.

Biography The daughter of , a colonel of Cavalry, banker and journalist, and Charlotte Goüin, Marie-Christine Morel de Foucaucourt married Alexander Jordis-Lohausen.

A graduate of the Sorbonne and Harvard University, she moved to London to prepare her PhD thesis on black humour in English literature and taught there for several years.

On her return to France, she became responsible for English literature at the British Council (1979–1991).

She collaborated with La Nouvelle Revue française, then and Le Monde.

From 1991 to 2012, Christine Jordis was director of English fiction at Éditions Gallimard and a member of the reading committee of the publishing house. She has also been a member of the Prix Baudelaire de la traduction since 1985, the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger since 1992, the Prix Fémina since 1996, the Prix Cazes since 2006 and the Prix du roman arabe since 2008. She is now a member of the reading committee of Éditions Grasset.

On 15 May 2009 she was made an officer of the Ordre national du Mérite and of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Works 1989: De petits enfers variés, Seuil, (Prix Femina Vacaresco and Prix Marcel-Thiébaut) 1996: Jean Rhys, la prisonnière, Stock 1999: Gens de la Tamise et d'autre rivages : le roman anglais au XXe siècle, Seuil — Prix Médicis essai 1999: Le Paysage et l'Amour dans le roman anglais, Seuil 2001: Bali, Java, en rêvant, Éditions du Rocher 2003: La Chambre blanche, Seuil 2004: Promenade en terres bouddhistes de Birmanie, Seuil 2005: Une passion excentrique : Visites anglaises, Seuil, (Prix Valery-Larbaud and Prix Anna de Noailles. ) 2006: Birmanie, Seuil 2006: Gandhi, Gallimard 2008: Un lien étroit, Seuil, (Prix Cabourg) 2008: Promenades anglaises, 2009: L'Aventure du désert, Gallimard 2012: Une vie pour l'impossible, Gallimard, (Prix du roman de la Fondation de France Charles Oulmont) 2014: William Blake ou l'infini, Albin Michel, (Prix Société des Gens de Lettres de l'essai) 2016: Paysage d'hiver. Voyage en compagnie d'un sage, Albin Michel