Bloch-Dano, Évelyne

A Modern Languages graduate, writer, literary jury member (Prix Femina, Prix François Mauriac) and journalist for "Magazine Literaire", Evelyne Bloch-Dano is the author of essays, biographies and autobiographical works. Her books often feature female personalities linked to the dual thread of the glories of French literature: "Madame Zola" (1997, winner of the Prix des lectrices de Elle), "Flora Tristan" (2001, Prix François Billetdoux de la SCAM), "Madame Proust" (2004, Prix Renaudot de l'essai, Prix du nouveau Cercle de l'Union, Prix du Cercle littéraire proustien), e "Le dernier amour de George Sand" (2010). She has also written essays on the relationship between nature and culture, notably "La fabuleuse histoire des légumes" (2008, Prix Brazier de l'Essai gourmand), the result of her conferences at the Université populaire du goût, and "Giardini di carta" (2016), "a settle and erudite journey through the gardens that have punctuated the lives of Proust, Colette, Sartre, Modiano" ("Madame Figaro"), where the exploration of green space, «concentrated beauty and sensuality, and at the same time alienating and protected», is an opportunity to celebrate fundamental texts of modern thought.