Sylvie Germain is a French écrivaine born in 1954 with Chateauroux.

Academic works

• 1976 : control philosophy. Sorbonne Paris IV

• 1978: D.E.A. of philosophy and esthetics in Nanterre Paris X
• 1981: Doctorate of 3rd cycle - philosophy and esthetics in Nanterre Paris X

Community activities

• 1978 - 1981: documentalist (DATAR, Council of State, cabinet of architecture)
• 1981 - 1986: Ministry for the Culture - Paris - civil servant
• 1986 - 1993: professor of French and philosophy at the French School of Prague
• Since 1994: literary activity only.

It is member of the committee of sponsorship of the French Coordination for the Decade of the culture of peace and non-violence.

Works

• the Book of the nights (Gallimard, 1984)
• Night of Amber (Gallimard, 1986)
• dumb Opera (Maren Salt, 1989)
• Days of anger (Gallimard, 1989), Price Femina 1989
• Crying It of the streets of Prague (Gallimard, 1991)
• the Child Jellyfish (Gallimard, 1992)
• Vermeer- Patience and Songe of light (Flohic, 1993)
• Vastnesses (Gallimard, 1993)
• Glares of salt (Gallimard, 1996)
• Echoes of silence (Desclée de Brouwer, 1996), Price of religious literature 1997
• Céphalophores (Gallimard, 1997)
• Tobie of the marshes (Gallimard, 1998)
• Bohuslav Reynek in Petrkov (Christian Pirot, 1998)
• the Ink of the octopus (Gallimard Youth, 1999)
• Etty Hillesum (Pygmalion Gerard Watelet, 1999)
• Cracow with flight of birds (of the Rock, 2000)
• To die a little (Desclée de Brouwer, 2000)
• Great Night from All Saints' day (time that it makes, 2000)
• Célébration of paternity (Albin Michel, 2001)
• the wind cannot be put out of cage (Alice, 2002)
• Chanson of the badly-magnets (Gallimard, 2002)
• Couleurs of invisible (Al Manar, 2002)
• Songes of time (Desclée de Brouwer, 2003)
• the Characters (Gallimard, 2004)
• Ateliers of light (Desclée de Brouwer, 2004)
• Magnus (Albin Michel, 2005) Prix Goncourt high-school pupils 2005.

External bonds

• a bio-bibliography of Sylvie Germain

• Documentation criticizes on the work of Sylvie Germain (Auteurs.contemporain.info site)