# Catherine Weinzaepflen

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Catherine Weinzaepflen

[Template:Short description](/mw/index.php?title=Template:Short_description&action=edit&redlink=1) **Catherine Weinzaepflen** (born 1 July 1946, [Strasbourg](/mw/index.php?title=Strasbourg&action=edit&redlink=1)) is a French writer.

## Contents

- [1 Biography](#Biography)

- [2 Bibliography](#Bibliography)

- [3 Literary prizes](#Literary_prizes)

- [4 Sources](#Sources)

- [5 External links](#External_links)

## Biography

Weinzaepflen spent her childhood in Alsace and the Central African Republic, studied literature in Strasbourg, and has lived in Paris since 1977. She made many trips to the Middle East (Turkey, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan) which, like Africa, permeate her books.

With Christiane Veschambre, she created and co-directed the literary magazine *Land* (1981-1984). In 1986, her daughter Fanny was born; the father is the painter Michel Potage. From 1990 to 2000, she regularly stayed in Los Angeles, and from 2010 to 2014 in Sydney.

She is a member of the Reading Committee of [Flammarion](/mw/index.php?title=Groupe_Flammarion&action=edit&redlink=1) (1991-1993), then a member of the Commission Poésie of the [Centre national du livre](/mw/index.php?title=Centre_national_du_livre&action=edit&redlink=1) (2003–2006). She has created writing workshops that she continues to lead (École supérieure des Arts décoratifs de Strasbourg, 1996–2010; École spéciale d'architecture de Paris, since 2004). She regularly collaborates with the *CCP* (*Cahier Critique de Poésie*).

## Bibliography

**Poetry**

- 1976: *L'Eau jaune*, éditions Traboule

- 1977: *Dans le texte*, éditions La Main Bleue

- 1977: *La Distance intime*, éditions Coprah

- 1980: *Cracher l'Afrique*, Atelier de l'Agneau (Belgium)

- 1989: *Les Maisons*, Spectres familiers

- 2000: *Les Mains dans le jaune absent*, followed by *York &*, Le Scorff

- 2008: *Le Temps du tableau*, Editions Des femmes-[Antoinette Fouque](/mw/index.php?title=Antoinette_Fouque&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 2012: *Ode à un kangourou*, Editions de l'Attente

- 2013: *Ô l'explosion des poppies,*Editions de l'Attente

- 2015: *avec Ingeborg,* Editions Des femmes- Antoinette Fouque

**Novels**

- 1977: *Isocelles*, Des Femmes

- 1978: *La Farnésine, jardins*, Des Femmes

- 1983: *Portrait et un rêve*, Flammarion, (Prix France Culture)

- 1985: *Am See*, Flammarion; L'Atelier des Brisants; Des femmes-Antoinette Fouque, 2007 (radio drama for [France Culture](/mw/index.php?title=France_Culture&action=edit&redlink=1) broadcast in 1979 under the title *La Parole nomade*)

- 1985: *Totem*, Flammarion, (selected for the [prix Médicis](/mw/index.php?title=Prix_M%C3%A9dicis&action=edit&redlink=1))

- 1989: *L'Ampleur du monde*, Flammarion

- 1992: *D'où êtes-vous ?*, Flammarion

- 2002: *Ismaëla*, L'Atelier des Brisants

- 2003: *Allée des Géants*, L'Atelier des Brisants

- 2004: *La Place de mon théâtre*, Farrago

- 2006: *Orpiment*, Des Femmes–Antoinette Fouque

- 2012: *Celle-là*, Des femmes-Antoinette Fouque

- 2014: *La Vie sauve,* Des femmes-Antoinette Fouque

**Theatre**

- 1985: *Danube jaune* (commissioned by the [Comédie-Française](/mw/index.php?title=Com%C3%A9die-Fran%C3%A7aise&action=edit&redlink=1)), mise-en-scène at [Centre Pompidou](/mw/index.php?title=Centre_Pompidou&action=edit&redlink=1)

**Texts**

- 1975: « Entre ON et OFF », in *Marguerite Duras*, éditions Albatros

- 1980: « Fin de repas à China Cafe », in *Manger*, éditions Yellow Now

- various articles in the magazines *Minuit, Traverses, Autrement (Paris mode d'emploi), Première Livraison, Anima, Land, Incendits* (Belgium), *Recueil, Jungle, Faire-Part, Murs murs, Temporali* (Italy), *If, Action poétique*, etc.

**Translations**

- From English - *[A Moon for the Misbegotten](/mw/index.php?title=A_Moon_for_the_Misbegotten&action=edit&redlink=1)* by [Eugene O'Neill](/mw/index.php?title=Eugene_O%27Neill&action=edit&redlink=1), directed by [Template:Ill](/mw/index.php?title=Template:Ill&action=edit&redlink=1) at [Festival d'Avignon](/mw/index.php?title=Festival_d%27Avignon&action=edit&redlink=1) and at [Théâtre national de Chaillot](/mw/index.php?title=Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_national_de_Chaillot&action=edit&redlink=1), 1987 - *Le Filon* by [Tom Raworth](/mw/index.php?title=Tom_Raworth&action=edit&redlink=1), éditions CIPM/Spectres familiers, 1991 - *Poèmes* by [Elizabeth Bishop](/mw/index.php?title=Elizabeth_Bishop&action=edit&redlink=1), *If* n° 22 - *Poèmes* by [Denise Levertov](/mw/index.php?title=Denise_Levertov&action=edit&redlink=1), *Action poétique* n° 173

- From German - *Le Bonheur sur la colline* by [Margret Kreidl](/mw/index.php?title=Margret_Kreidl&action=edit&redlink=1) (collective translation), éditions Al Dante - *Poèmes* by [Rose Ausländer](/mw/index.php?title=Rose_Ausl%C3%A4nder&action=edit&redlink=1), *If* n° 27 - *Poèmes* by [Christine Lavant](/mw/index.php?title=Christine_Lavant&action=edit&redlink=1) and [Ingeborg Bachmann](/mw/index.php?title=Ingeborg_Bachmann&action=edit&redlink=1), *Action poétique* n° 193 and *If* n° 32

**Cinema**

- *Avenue of the Giants* (script), adaptation of the novel *Allée des Géants*

- Chronique *Cinéma & cinémas* in the magazine *Action poétique* (2003–2005)

## Literary prizes

- 1983 : [Prix France Culture](/mw/index.php?title=Prix_France_Culture&action=edit&redlink=1) for *Portrait et un rêve*

- 1985 : Bourse de la Fondation [Cino Del Duca](/mw/index.php?title=Cino_Del_Duca&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 2006 : Prix Brantôme for *Orpiment*

## Sources

- Catherine Weinzaepflen, in *[Template:Ill](/mw/index.php?title=Template:Ill&action=edit&redlink=1)*, vol. 39, p. 4143

- Catherine Weinzaepflen in *Le Dictionnaire universel des Créatrices,*vol. 3, p. 4564

## External links

- [Catherine Weinzaepflen](http://www.desfemmes.fr/auteur/catherine-weinzaepflen/) on Éditions des femmes

- [Bio-bibliographie](http://www.cipmarseille.com/auteur_fiche.php?id=203)

- [Catherine Weinzaepflen](http://www.esa-paris.fr/Weinzaepflen-Catherine.html) [Template:Webarchive](/mw/index.php?title=Template:Webarchive&action=edit&redlink=1) on École spéciale d'architecture

- [*Avec Ingeborg*](http://terresdefemmes.blogs.com/mon_weblog/2015/11/catherine-weinzaepflen-avec-ingeborg-par-ang%C3%A8le-paoli.html) on Terres de femmes

- [Catherine Weinzaepflen](https://www.franceculture.fr/personne-catherine-weinzaepflen.html) on France Culture

- [Catherine Weinzaepflen](http://www.babelio.com/auteur/Catherine-Weinzaepflen/39888) on Babelio

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