Tiphaine Samoyault

Tiphaine Samoyault was born in Boulogne-Billancourt in June 1968. She grew up in Fontainebleau, in the Château de Fontainebleau, where her father, Jean-Pierre Samoyault, was curator. This childhood is evoked in her first novel, La Cour des Adieux, named after the cour d'Honneur of the palace, where Napoleon said his farewells. Her childhood was immersed in music, notably at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, directed at the time by Nadia Boulanger, and located near her parents' apartments in the château. A graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Samoyault wrote her doctoral thesis on (1996) and her habilitation thesis on (2003). ==Career==

, Maurice Nadeau, and Tiphaine Samoyault (l-r) (2011) After working at the Université Paris-VIII, she became Professor of Comparative Literature at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3. Until June 2012, she headed the comparative literature department at Université Paris-VIII. A former resident of the Villa Médicis (2000–2001), Samoyault is also a novelist and translator of, among other works, portions of the new edition of James Joyce's Ulysses, and of David Shulman and Charles Malamoud's essay ''Ta'ayushn : journal d'un combat pour la paix : Israël Palestine, 2002-2005'' (Le Seuil, 2006). A member of the reading committee at Editions du Seuil, she also contributes to France Culture and was a contributor to until September 2015. She is a member of the editorial board of the online journal . Since 2022, Samoyault has been writing a serial for . ==Awards and honours==

• Grand prize in non-fiction, Société des gens de lettres (2015) • Longlisted, Jan Michalski Prize (2015) == Selected works ==

Essays • Excès du roman : essai, Paris, Maurice Nadeau, 1999 • Littérature et mémoire du présent, Nantes, Pleins feux, 2001 (fascicule) • ''L'intertextualité : mémoire de la littérature'', Paris, Nathan, 2001 ; rééd. A. Colin, Paris, 2005 • ''La montre cassée : forme et signification d'un motif dans les arts du temps'', Verdier, Lagrasse, 2004 • Traduction et violence, Seuil, 2020 Children's documentary • Le monde des pictogrammes, Paris, Circonflexe, 1995 - English edition: Alphabetical order : how the alphabet began, New York, Penguin / Viking, 1996 Biographies • Roland Barthes, Paris, Le Seuil, 2015 Introductions or commentaries to major works of French literature • Électre de Jean Giraudoux (1997) • ''W ou le souvenir d'enfance de Georges Perec'' (1997) • ''Impressions d'Afrique de Raymond Roussel'' (2005) • Locus solus de Raymond Roussel (2005) • ''Le Grand Meaulnes d'Alain-Fournier'' (2009) Novels and short stories • La Cour des adieux, Maurice Nadeau, Paris, 1999 • Météorologie du rêve, Le Seuil, Paris, 2000 • Les Indulgences, Le Seuil, Paris, 2003 • La Main négative, Editions Argol, Paris, 2008 • Bête de cirque, Le Seuil, Paris, 2013 ==References==