Berthe morisot biography dominique bona

Born in 1953 in Perpignan from a Catalan family, Dominique Bona is the daughter of Arthur Conte, writer and politician. Associate of Modern Literature, she worked as an assistant France Culture and France Inter from 1976 to 1980 before becoming a journalist and literary critic at Quotidien de Paris (1980-1985) and Figaro litteraire since 1985.

Dominique Bona enters literature with novels Les heures volées (1981) and Argentina (1984) before turning to biography which constitutes the bulk of her work: Romain Gary (1987), Les yeux noirs ou "les vies extraordinaires des soeurs Hérédia" (1989).

In 1992, she published Malika (Prix Interallié), the story of a young and attractive Moroccan of Berber origin,who enters the small, futile, posh world of a family on holiday in St. Tropez, before devoting a biography Gala (1994, Prix Méditerranée) and Stefan Zweig, l'ami blessé (1996).

In 1998, she received the Prix Renaudot f