Dominique Barbéris

Dominique Barberis, born in 1958, is a French novelist, author of literary studies and university professor, specialist in stylistics and writing workshops.

Born in 1958 in Cameroon into a French family of Nantes, her father was a diplomat in Africa. Dominique Barberis studied at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Sèvres and the University of Sorbonne, after her childhood in Nantes, then in Brussels. She teaches as associate professor of modern literature, she began teaching in high school in Boulogne-Billancourt before joining an insurance company as head of communications, she later taught in several schools. Then she returned as a professor at the University of Paris IV successively in foreign languages and applied foreign languages at the French language department in which she conducts courses and workshops on stylistic and writing fiction. Passionate by literature, she published her first novel in Editorial Arles in 1996 at the age of 38, before joining Gallimard in 1998 as an author. Its production is characterized by painting romantic atmospheres, provincial infancy. She has also published several literary studies and prefaces.

• Quatre lectures, Four readings: critical essay of Jean-Pierre Richard, Fayard 2002.