Danièle Sallenave (born 28 October 1940) is a French novelist and journalist. In April 2011, she became a member of the Académie française. In 1980 Sallenave received the Prix Renaudot for her novel Les Portes de Gubbio.
Works
Un printemps froid: récits, P.O.L., 1983, Phantom life, Pantheon Books, 1989, À quoi sert la littérature ?, Editions Textuel, 1997, L'Amazone du grand Dieu, Bayard, 1997, Castor de guerre, Gallimard, 2008,
Critical works
Jacques Le Martinel (ed.), Danièle Sallenave: Visages d'une oeuvre, Angers University Press, 2000. Bruno Thibault, Danièle Sallenave et le don des morts, Amsterdam/New York, Editions Rodopi, 2004. Bruno Thibault (ed.), Danièle Sallenave, Europe, January 2014 (in press)