Françoise Cloarec
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Françoise Cloarec (born 1957 in Paris)[1] is a French writer, painter and psychoanalyst.
After studying at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, from which she graduated in 1972,[2] Françoise Cloarec turned to Psychoanalysis, preparing a doctorate in psychoanalysis on Séraphine Louis at Paris Diderot University, which she defended in 1984.[3]
In addition to her work as a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist at the Ville-Évrard hospital, she is also a painter,[4] having exhibited at the Jardin du Luxembourg orangery in 2000.[5]
Françoise Cloarec is also a writer. She has written several books on women artists (Séraphine Louis, Camille Claudel, Marie Laurencin), as well as novels about Syria, a country that made a deep impression on her when she discovered it in 1993 during a conference and exhibition of her paintings in Aleppo.
She became a Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2001,[6] and in 2017 and 2018 was a member of the jury for the Prix Anaïs-Nin. Part of the “Montluc, Résistance et Liberté” literary prize.
