Little Dancer Aged Fourteen
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She is famous throughout the world, but how many know her name? You can admire her figure in Washington, Paris, London, New York, Dresden or Copenhagen but where is her grave? She danced as a 'petit rat' at the Paris Opera. She was also a model, she posed for painters and sculptors - among them Edgar Degas. Taking us through the underbelly of the Belle Epoque, Laurens casts a light on those who have traditionally been overlooked in the study of art, and opens a space for essential questions. She paints a compelling portrait of Marie van Goethem and the world she inhabited, in the 1880s; a time when art unsettled the hypocrisy of society.
Camille Laurens's fiction and non-fiction has been published in France since the early 1990s. In 2000, she won the Prix Femina, one of France's most prestigious literary prizes, for the autofiction IN THOSE ARMS, which was published in the UK in 2004, and was translated into twelve languages. Her most recent novel, WHO YOU THINK I AM (2016), was adapted for the cinema in the eponymous film starring Juliette Binoche. In 2020, Laurens became a member of the Academie Goncourt. She lives in Paris.