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Hélène Cixous

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French philosopher and writer

FranceAcademicsBorn 1937 · age 89
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Hélène Cixous is a French writer, playwright and literary critic. During her academic career, she was primarily associated with the Centre universitaire de Vincennes, which she co-founded in 1969 and where she created the first centre of women's studies at a European university.

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2025Prix Formentor
2023Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit
2021The prize of the BNF
2018Grand prix du théâtre
2017Francine and Antoine Bernheim Award for Arts, Literature and Science
2016Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎
2014Officer of the Legion of Honour
2014Prix de la langue française
2014Prix Marguerite Duras
1969Prix Médicis
Prix du Syndicat de la critique
honorary doctor of the University of St Andrews
honorary doctor of Georgetown University
honorary doctorate of the University of York
Honorary doctorate from Queen's University
honorary doctorate from the University of Alberta
honorary doctor of University College London

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Hélène Cixous is a French writer, playwright and literary critic. During her academic career, she was primarily associated with the Centre universitaire de Vincennes, which she co-founded in 1969 and where she created the first centre of women's studies at a European university. Known for her experimental writing style and great versatility as a writer and thinker, she has written more than seventy books dealing with multiple genres: theatre, literary and feminist theory, art criticism, autobiography and poetic fiction.

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Born 1937 · age 89
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