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The voice of the galley slaves
2003. For the first time in my life, I “made” the literary season. I had the marvelous impression of entering the big leagues. The 2003...

Catherine Rey
Aug 24, 20236 min read
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Where do we write from ?
Text published in the online journal Secousse #26 (06/2023) as part of the survey "Is the style right-wing ? " proposed following the...

Catherine Rey
Jul 15, 20236 min read
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The third sex
There's a magazine collecting dust on my shelf. I leaf through it again. Judging by the pictures, it is aimed at young women: students...

Catherine Rey
Jul 26, 202216 min read
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Gardens
They had gardens. Gardens as round as eggs and enclosed like nests bounded by branches in which they walked and conversed. They followed...

Catherine Rey
Jun 29, 20222 min read
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Faraway country
On the day following the launch of my last book, I caught the train back to Sydney. I was going to meet Natalie at her hotel. It took...

Catherine Rey
Jun 27, 20229 min read
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Miscellaneous on translation
Any migrant moving to a foreign country not as a child, but as an adult, knows that his past is bound to be wiped out. In the host...

Catherine Rey
Jun 13, 202212 min read
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Mother tongue
The first literary text that I wrote was published in English in 2013, sixteen years after I settled in Australia. It was a commissioned...

Catherine Rey
Mar 13, 202211 min read
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