Claire Legendre

Claire Legendre is a writer and professor of creative writing at the Université de Montréal since 2011. Originally from Nice, France, she studied at the Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis where she obtained a PhD in comparative literature and theatre studies. Her research focused on the dramaturgy of the Theater of the Absurd and theories of theatrical mise-en-scène, in particular on the question of truth as a scenic and epistemological issue in 20th and 21st century theater. After teaching literature, theatrical semiology and playwriting at the University of Nice, she lived in Prague where she taught creative writing from 2008 to 2011. Resident at the Villa Medici in Rome in 2000, author of novels (Making-of, Viande, Matricule, La Méthode Stanislavski, L'Écorchée vive, Vérité et amour, Bermudes), short stories (Le Crépuscule de Barbe-Bleue) and plays, she also co-authored with Jérôme Bonnetto a collection of photoliterature (Photobiographies) and signed an autobiographical essay (Le Nénuphar et l'araignée) in 2015. In 2018 she directed a first feature documentary, Bermuda (North) about Anticosti Island and the North Shore of the St. Lawrence river. In 2020, she directed the collective Nullipares, bringing together the texts of ten women authors who have not borne children.