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Desvignes, Lucette
Author of ten novels (with two more due to appear in 2009), eight plays, three volumes of poetry, and more than 100 short stories and tales, Lucette Desvignes has won numerous literary prizes and distinctions, including the Prix Roland Dorgelès, the Prix de l’Humour Alexis Piron, and the prestigious Prix Bourgogne. She was featured on Bernard Pivot’s famous literary show “Apostrophes.” A literary prize for the short story — the Prix Lucette Desvignes de la Nouvelle — was created in her honor. Desvignes continues to write and to contribute to the literature of the 21st century.
2010 0-7734-3908-0Translated into English for the first time, Lucette Desvignes examines, through her fiction, the relationship between animals and humans. Liberating animals from circumstances that often imprison them, Desvignes helps us to discover their unique personalities and the joy they can bring to the people around them.
2008 0-7734-4950-3
A dual-language edition of Lucette Desvignes reinterpretation of the Greek myth, Electra, set in World War II France.
2011 0-7734-3943-9
Analysis and examination of the travel fiction of Lucette Desvignes, for the first time in English, that uses the author’s own experiences, as well as the Lucette’s characters, to show how she changed the genre.
2008 0-7734-4920-5
2002 0-7734-7071-9
2009 0-7734-4690-7
This volume of short fiction by Lucette Desvignes introduces portraits of Burgundy’s intrepid wine-growers, samples of their distinctive vernacular, images of their fierce resistance to all things “Parisian” and their unique customs. This book contains one black and white photograph.
2010 0-7734-1304-9
This collection of short stories is the fourth volume of translated works by French writer Lucette Desvignes. Though all the stories have a decidedly "French" flavor, each goes well beyond the concerns of provincial villagers to embrace global perspectives and universal values.