Noëlle Châtelet

Noëlle Châtelet ; born Noëlle Jospin, 16 October 1944) is a French writer and lecturer in the humanities at the Paris Descartes University (Paris V). She is the author of essays, collections of short stories and novels translated into several languages.

Life and career Noëlle Châtelet obtained her PhD under Gilles Deleuze in 1976 at the University of Paris VIII with a thesis in sociology titled Le Corps à corps culinaire: images et institutions [The Culinary Melee: Images and Institutions] about psychosocial and cultural aspects of eating disorders in young women. She was director of the French Institute of Florence, Italy, from 1989 to 1991. Since 2003, she has been the vice-president of the Society of Men of Letters of France.

She has also participated as an actress in numerous works for television and film until 1987.

She is the widow of the philosopher François Châtelet. She is the sister of Lionel Jospin.

Honours 1987: Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle, Histoires de bouche 2009: Chevalier of the Legion of Honour 2016: Officer of the Ordre national du Mérite