Emmanuelle Lambert

Emmanuelle Lambert is an associate of modern letters and a doctor of letters, beginning in 2003, with a thesis on the theatre of Jean Genet.^[1]

After having worked with Alain Robbe-Grillet on the publication of some of his texts (Le Voyageur, 2001, Christian Bourgois [fr]; Scenarios en rose et noir, 2005, Fayard), in 2009 she devoted her first book to him, My great writer, and signed in 2012 the afterword to Catherine Robbe-Grillet's book of memories entitled Alain (Fayard).

In 2011, she became the author of a novel entitled Un peu de vie dans la mienne^[2], and in 2013 she wrote La Tête haute.^[3]

She is curator of the exhibition held on Jean Genet at the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations in 2016.^[4]

In January 2018, she published a novel entitled La Désertion^[5] with Stock Editions and in May 2018, a story, Apparitions de Jean Genet^[6] (Les Impressions Nouvelles).

In November 2019, she won the Femina essay prize for her book Giono, furioso.^[7]

She was curator of the Giono exhibition held at the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations in 2019-2020.

In 2021, she published the Romans and poems of Jean Genet in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, with Gilles Philippe [fr].

Her book Le Garçon de mon père was published in August 2021.^[8]

In November 2022, she published, with Éditions Gallimard, Sidonie Gabrielle Colette^[9], a literary portrait of Colette, accompanied by photographs by Gisèle Freund, Robert Doisneau, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Irving Penn, Cecil Beaton and Lee Miller.^[10]

• Mon grand écrivain, récit, Les Impressions nouvelles, 2009
• Un peu de vie dans la mienne, roman, Les Impressions nouvelles, 2011
• La Tête haute, roman, Les Impressions nouvelles, 2013
• La Désertion, roman, Éditions Stock, 2018
• Apparitions de Jean Genet, récit, Les Impressions nouvelles, 2018
• Giono, furioso, roman, Éditions Stock, 2019
• Le Garçon de mon père, Éditions Stock, 2021
• Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Éditions Gallimard, 2022