Madeleine Bourdouxhe

Madeleine Bourdouxhe (25 September 1906 – 17 April 1996) was a Belgian writer.

Biography Madeleine Bourdouxhe was born in Liège, Belgium, to Elise ( Moreau) and Julien Bourdouxhe. They moved to France in 1914, moving a number of times until settling in Paris for the duration of World War I. In 1918, she returned with her family to Liège and then moved with them to Brussels. In 1926, she began to study philosophy at the Université libre de Bruxelles.

Bourdouxhe was rediscovered in the 1980s, resulting in new editions and translations.

She died in Brussels on 17 April 1996, aged 89.

Works

La Femme de Gilles (Gallimard, 1937). Trans. Faith Evans (Lime Tree, 1992; Daunt Books, 2014; Melville House, 2016) À la recherche de Marie (Éditions Libris, 1943). Marie, trans. Faith Evans (Bloomsbury, 1997) Republished in French as Wagram 17-42, Marie attend Marie (Éditions Tierce, 1989) Sous le pont Mirabeau (Éditions Lumière, 1944) Sept Nouvelles (Éditions Tierce, 1984) Vacances (written 1935, unpublished) Mantoue est trop loin (written 1956; published posthumously by Éditions Névrosée, 2019) Le Voyageur fatigué (unpublished) Compilations in English A Nail, A Rose and Other Stories (The Women's Press, 1989; Pushkin Press, 2019). Translations by Faith Evans of Sept Nouvelles and Sous le pont Mirabeau.

Adaptations of her work

La Femme de Gilles, 2004 Belgian drama film