Françoise Collin

Françoise Collin (8 April 1928, Braine-le-Comte - 1 September 2012) was a Belgian novelist, philosopher and feminist.

Life
Françoise Collin published two novels and collaborated on the first series of the magazine Luna-Park.

She studied in Paris with Jean Hyppolite and Maurice Merleau-Ponty and defended a thesis in literature and philosophy.

She wrote a thesis on Maurice Blanchot. She studied women authors including Ingeborg Bachmann, Gertrude Stein and Marieluise Fleisser. She was one of the first to introduce Hannah Arendt's work into the French philosophical and feminist fields.

She traveled to the United States in 1972, and on her return in 1973 created the first French-language feminist journal, Les Cahiers du Grif. She edited with Hedwige Peemans-Poullet GRIF-Université des femmes, she directed the Grif collection at Minuit editions and the Littérales collection at Tierce editions. She contributed to the founding of the Revue des femmes-philosophes de l'Unesco in 2010.

Works

 * Le Jour fabuleux, Le Seuil, 1960.
 * Rose qui peut, Le Seuil, 1963
 * 331W20 President's Election, Transedition, 1975.
 * Le Rendez-vous, Tierce, 1988
 * Le Jardin de Louise, La Barre du jour 1988
 * On dsemble une ville, éditions des Femmes, 2008.