She was 23 years old when her first novel appeared, “such a tender vampire” in 1986, but it was with “the Gospels of Crime” in 1992, that she felt born to literature , she said.
Le Monde with AFP
“There is a great distrust with me with regard to rooting. I wrote on this feeling of loss which is at the origin of all literary work”, she explained to the world, in 2015 in 2015 . The French novelist of Vietnamese origin Linda Lê died Monday May 9 at the age of 58, we learned from her publisher, Stock. She succumbed to a long illness, said the publishing house at the France-Presse agency.
“Sadness and shock to lose Linda Lê, writer and critic (…). Her articles show a great reader, dialoguing with texts as with living beings,” wrote on Twitter Pierre Benetti , co -founder of the literary journal while waiting for Nadeau, on which she collaborated.
“immense sadness to learn death this morning from Linda Lê, author of one of the major works of contemporary literature and very great reader”, paid tribute to her Sylvain Bourmeau, director of the AOC review, in which She also published texts.
Linda Lê had published in February of a person I was the contemporary, at Stock, the meeting in Moscow in 1923 between the Russian poet Ossip Mandelstam and the militant of Vietnamese independence Ho Chi Minh.
Linda Lê was born in 1963 in Dalat, Vietnam. In 1969, his family went to Saigon to flee the war. At the French Lycée, she takes a passion for Victor Hugo and Balzac. In 1977, two years after the end of the war, she left Vietnam for France.
She was 23 years old when her first novel appeared, such a tender vampire (1986), but it was with the Gospels of Crime (1992) that she felt born to literature, she said. In 2019, she had received the Prince of Monaco Prize for all of her work.