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Julia Kristeva
Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Julia Kristeva (French: [kʁisteva]; Bulgarian: Юлия Кръстева; born 24 June 1941) is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, semiotician, psychoanalyst, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She is now a professor emeritus at the University Paris Diderot. The author of more than 30 books, including Powers of Horror, Tales of Love, Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia, Proust and the Sense of Time, and the trilogy Female Genius, she has been awarded Commander of the Legion of Honor, Commander of the Order of Merit, the Holberg International Memorial Prize, the Hannah Arendt Prize, and the Vision 97 Foundation Prize, awarded by the Havel Foundation.
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Born | Юлия Кръстева (1941-06-24) 24 June 1941 (age 83) |
Nationality | French / Bulgarian |
Alma mater | University of Sofia |
Spouse | Philippe Sollers |
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Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
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Website | kristeva.fr |
Kristeva became influential in international critical analysis, cultural studies and feminism after publishing her first book, Semeiotikè, in 1969. She has published a large amount of academic work including books and essays which address intertextuality, the semiotic, and abjection, in the fields of linguistics, literary theory and criticism, psychoanalysis, biography and autobiography, political and cultural analysis, art and art history. She is important in structuralist and poststructuralist thought.
Kristeva is also the founder of the Simone de Beauvoir Prize committee.[3]