Michèle Perret
Michèle Perret is a French linguist and novelist who was born in 1937 in Oran in Algeria.Background and education
She lived in Algeria until 1955, first on a farm near to Sfissef, and then in Oran. Towards the end of her secondary education she settled in Paris. After qualifying as an agrégée in modern literature, she went on to a doctorate in literature and humanities.Career
Her academic career has almost all been spent as a professor of medieval language at Paris West University Nanterre La Défense.
After a dissertation about shifters in Middle French her subsequent research has included:
Her literary work is mainly concerned with the colonial and postcolonial Maghreb, particularly Algeria.Academic works and translations
- Introduction à l'histoire de la langue française, Paris SEDES, 1998.
- Renaut de Beaujeu, Le Bel Inconnu, text and translation Michèle Perret, Paris, Champion, 2003, 340 p.
- L'énonciation en grammaire du texte, Paris, Nathan, 1996
- Renaud de Beaujeu, Le Bel Inconnu, translated from Old French by Michèle Perret and Isabelle Weill, Paris, Champion, 1991, 112p.
- Le signe et la mention : adverbes embrayeurs CI, CA, LA, ILUEC en moyen français,Genève, Droz, 1988, 294 p.
- Jean d'Arras, Mélusine, roman du XIV° siècle. Preface by Jacques Le Goff, translation and afterword by Michèle Perret, Stock, 1979, 334 p.
Literary works
- La légende de Mélusine, Paris, Flammarion,, 1997..
- Terre du vent, une enfance dans une ferme algérienne, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2009..
- D’ocre et de cendres, femmes en Algérie, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2012..
- Erreurs de jeunesse, The Book, 2013.
- La véridique histoire de la fée Mélusine, Tertium éditions, 2014.
- Les arbres ne nous oublient pas, Chèvre feuille étoilée, 2016
Contributions to collections
- Histoires minuscules des révolutions arabes, edited by Wassyla Tamzali, Montpellier, Chèvre feuille étoilée, 2012.
- L'enfance des Français d'Algérie avant 1962 , edited by Leïla Sebbar, Saint-Pourçain, Bleu autour, 2014.
Works about Perret
- Comme la lettre dit la vie. Mélanges offerts à Michèle Perret, edited by Dominique Lagorgette and Marielle Lignereux, special issue of LINX, novembre 2002.
- Littérature et linguistique: diachronie / synchronie. Autour des travaux de Michèle Perret, cd-rom produced by Dominique Lagorgette and Marielle Lignereux, Université de Savoie, UFR LLSH, Chambéry, collection: Languages, 2007
