Lydie Salvayre

Lydie Salvayre (born Lydie Arjona in 1948) is a French writer. Born in the south of France to Republican refugees from the Spanish Civil War, she went on to study medicine in Toulouse and continues to work as a practicing psychiatrist.

She has been awarded the Prix Hermes, the Prix Décembre for her work, and the 2014 Prix Goncourt for Pas pleurer.

Works

 * La Déclaration (1990)
 * La Vie commune (1991) - translated into English as Everyday Life (Dalkey Archive Press 2006)
 * La Médaille (1993) - translated into English as The Award (Four Walls Eight Windows 1997)
 * La Puissance des mouches (1995) - translated into English as The Power of Flies (Dalkey Archive Press 2007)
 * La Compagnie des spectres (1997) - translated into English as The Company of Ghosts (Dalkey Archive Press 2006)
 * Quelques conseils aux élèves huissiers (1997)
 * La Conférence de Cintegabelle (1999) - translated into English as The Lecture (Dalkey Archive Press 2005)
 * Les Belles âmes (2000)
 * Le Vif du vivant (2001)
 * Et que les vers mangent le bœuf mort (2002)
 * Contre (2002)
 * Passage à l'ennemie (2003)
 * La méthode Mila (2005)
 * Dis pas ça (2006)
 * Lumières sur la CCAS. Les activités sociales des salariés de l'énergie (2006, collective work)
 * Portrait de l'écrivain en animal domestique (2007)
 * Petit traité d'éducation lubrique (2008)
 * BW (2009)
 * Hymne (2011)
 * 7 femmes (2013)
 * Pas pleurer (2014, Prix Goncourt); published in English in 2016 by MacLehose Press as Cry, Mother Spain (translated by Ben Faccini).
 * Marcher jusqu'au soir (2019)

Decorations

 * Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters (2015)