Elisabeth Barber

Elisabeth Barber , of his true name Renee Guerin , is a French novelist born with Nimes (Gard) on April 25th, 1911 and died on February 19th, 1996 with Avignon.

She is of mother arlésienne and father nîmois.

Exiled with Paris as of its infancy, she lives there in waiting of the summer months which bring back it in its Occitanie native.

Laid off arts, and incidentally in right, she studies mental pathology with Georges Dumas and André Ombredane and is interested passionately in the theater in the entourage of the famous family of Pitoëff actors.

Married in 1935 after long engagement to a doctor of Avignon, Raymond Barber (death in 1942), it is fixed in this city where it directed a company of actors amateurs during years, and took part of very close with the birth of the Festival of Avignon, while continuing a career of novelist.

As of 1950, it collaborates with Jean Vilar and, during more than 15 years, its chronicles on the Festival of theater of Avignon make wonder.

Parallel to its theatrical activity, its most known fictionalized work, people of Mogador , reports on several generations the life of a family related to the field - imaginary of Mogador close to Avignon.

Member of the Femina Price in 1958, it is the friend of Isabelle Rivière, Marguerite Yourcenar, Pierre Boulle.

She dies out in 1996 in her beautiful residence of 22 rue des Trois-Colombes.

Source: The Book of Pocket, LGF.

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