MURIEL AUGRY (France)

MURIEL AUGRY is a French poet, essayist and short story writer, born in Paris. She taught at the University of Turin, Italy, before embarking on a career in French cultural diplomacy in Italy, Morocco and Romania. She is the author of around fifty critical articles, a dozen short stories published in anthologies and a collection translated into Romanian, This Thrill of the Absurd (2021). She has written eleven collections of poetry, four of which have been published in Romania – Encres lacerées (2020) Ne me dérêve pas (2020), A l’heure blanche (2021), Paris/Rome, impressions jumelles (2024)). Her poems have been translated into around ten languages. She received the “Roland de Jouvenel Prize of the French Academy” for the essay Cosmopolitanism in the short texts of Stendhal and Mérimée and the “Vénus Khoury Ghata Prize for Illustrated Poetry” for the beautiful book Instantanés d’une rive à l’autre, created with the calligrapher Abdallah Akar. She is a member of the Maison de Poésie, the Society of Men of Letters, the World Academy of Poetry and secretary general of the Parliament of Francophone Writers.