{{Short description|French writer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox writer | name = Marie Cardinal | image = | caption = | birth_name = Simone Odette Marie-Thérèse Cardinal | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1929|03|09}} | birth_place = French Algeria | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2001|05|09|1929|03|09}} | death_place = Valréas, France | occupation = Novelist | language = French | nationality = French | genre = Literature }}
'''Marie Cardinal''' (born '''Simone Odette Marie-Thérèse Cardinal'''; 9 March 1929 – 9 May 2001) was a French novelist and occasional actress.<ref>{{cite news |title=Marie Cardinal: French writer with an early feminist voice in literature |last1=Johnson |first1=Douglas |date=17 May 2001 |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/may/18/guardianobituaries3 |access-date=1 September 2014 }}</ref><ref name=McWhorter />
==Life and career== Cardinal was born in French Algeria and was the sister of the film director Pierre Cardinal. She graduated with a degree in philosophy from the Sorbonne and married the French playwright, actor and director Jean-Pierre Ronfard in 1953.<ref name=Johnson>{{harvnb|Johnson|2001}}</ref> They had three children; Alice, Benoit, and Benedict. From 1953 to 1960, Cardinal taught philosophy at schools in Salonica, Lisbon, Vienna and Montreal.<ref name=Johnson/>
She published her debut novel, ''Écoutez la Mer'' (''Listen to the Sea''), in 1962. During the 1960s, she wrote three more novels and ventured into film, appearing in Jean-Luc Godard's ''Deux Ou Trois Choses Que Je Sais D'elle''<ref name="Johnson" /> and playing Mouchette's mother in Robert Bresson's film ''Mouchette''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mouchette |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061996/?ref_=nm_knf_t4 |website=IMDb |access-date=1 September 2014}}</ref>
In 1972, Cardinal published ''La Clé Sur La Porte'' (''The Key of the Door''), followed by ''Les Mots Pour Le Dire'' (''The Words to Say It'') in 1975; these two novels were best sellers and established her reputation.<ref name=Johnson/> ''Les Mots Pour Le Dire'' also introduced Cardinal to English-speaking readers,<ref name=McWhorter>{{harvnb|McWhorter|1984}}</ref> with Pat Goodheart's translation published in the United States in 1983 and in the United Kingdom the following year.
==Bibliography== * ''Écoutez la mer'' (''Listen to the Sea'') (1962) * ''La mule de corbillard'' (1963) * ''La souricière'' (1965) * ''Cet été-là'' (1967) * ''La clé sur la porte'' (''The Key of the Door'') (1972) * ''Les Mots pour le dire'' (''The Words to Say It'') (1975) * ''Autrement dit'' (1977) * ''Une vie pour deux'' (1979) * ''Au Pays de mes racines'' (1980) * ''Le passé empiété'' (1983) * ''Les grands désordres'' (1987) * ''Les Pieds-Noirs'' (1988) * ''Comme si de rien n'était'' (1990) * ''Peer Gynt d'Henrik Ibsen'' (theater) (1991) translation * ''Les Troyennes d'Euripide'' (theater) (1993) translation * ''Les jeudis de Charles et Lula'' (1994) * ''Amour... Amours...'' (1998) * ''Oedipe à Colone de Sophocle'' (theater) (2003) translation
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== *{{citation |last=Marrone |first=Claire |title=The Limits of Writing in Marie Cardinal's ''Amour...amours'' |journal=Dalhousie French Studies |date=Summer 2002 |volume=59 |pages=119–129 |publisher=Dalhousie French Studies, Dalhousie University |jstor=40837398 }} *{{cite news |last=McWhorter |first=Diane |title=Recovering from Insanity |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/01/books/recovering-from-insanity.html |date= 1 January 1984 |work=New York Times|access-date=1 September 2014}} A review of ''The Words to Say It''.
==External links== *{{IMDb name|0136487}}
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