Éliette Abécassis is a French writer. She is a professor of philosophy in Caen

Caen

Caen is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the Calvados department and the capital of the Basse-Normandie region. It is located inland from the English Channel....

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Abécassis was born in Strasbourg

Strasbourg

Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. The city and the region of Alsace are historically German-speaking,...

. Her first book, Qumran, was released in 1996 after three years of research, and has been translated into eighteen languages. Her second title, L'Or et la cendre, details the historical and mysterious murder of a Berlin theologian. Murder also figures high in her 1998 work on the philosophical origins of homicide entitled Petite Métaphysique du meurtre. Her next novel, La Répudiée, a finalist for the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française

Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française

Le Grand Prix du Roman is a French literary award, created in 1918, and given each year by the Académie française. Along with the Prix Goncourt, it is one of the oldest and most prestigious literary awards in France...

 and for the Prix Fémina, was the inspiration for Amos Gitai

Amos Gitai

Amos Gitai , born 11 October 1950 in Haifa, Israel, is an Israeli filmmaker and director. He is mainly known for making documentaries and experimental / minimalist feature films...

's film Kadosh

Kadosh

Kadosh is a 1999 film by Israeli director Amos Gitai. It was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:Kadosh is a bleak drama about the plight of women in Haredi society. In the opening scene, Meir , a young Talmudic scholar, thanks God in his morning prayers for not being born a woman...

. To research this book, Abécassis spent six months in the very orthodox Mea Shearim

Mea Shearim

Mea Shearim is one of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem, Israel. It is populated mainly by Haredi Jews and was built by the original settlers of the Yishuv haYashan.-Name:...

 section of Jerusalem.

Her book Clandestin (2003) was one of twelve books chosen for the Prix Goncourt

Prix Goncourt

The Prix Goncourt is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year"...

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Works

• Qumran (1996)
• L'Or et la cendre (1997)
• Petite Métaphysique du meurtre (1998)
• La Répudiée (2000)
• Le Trésor du temple (2001)
• Mon père (2002)
• Clandestin (2003)
• La Dernière Tribu (2004)
• Un heureux événement (2005)
• Le Corset invisible (2007)
• Mère et fille, un roman (2008)
• Sépharade, 2009
• Le Messager, 2009 (with Mark Crick)

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