Lydie Salvayre | |
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![]() Lydie Salvayre at the 2019 Geneva book fair | |
Born | 5 September 1948 ![]() Autainville ![]() |
Works | Cry, Mother Spain ![]() |
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Lydie Salvayre (born Lydie Arjona in 1948) is a French writer. Born in the south of France to Republican refugees from the Spanish Civil War, she went on to study medicine in Toulouse and continues to work as a practicing psychiatrist.[1]
She has been awarded the Prix Hermes,[citation needed] the Prix Décembre[2] for her work, and the 2014 Prix Goncourt for Pas pleurer.[3]