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Lydie Salvayre
Lydie Salvayre (born Lydie Arjona on 15 March 1946 in Autainville, France) is a French novelist and psychiatrist. The daughter of Spanish Republican refugees who fled Francoist Spain, she grew up near Toulouse, studied literature and then medicine, and worked for years as a child psychiatrist while writing. Her novels, often mixing dark comedy with social critique of capitalism, include La Déclaration (1990, Prix Hermès), La Compagnie des spectres (1997, Prix Novembre), BW (2009, Prix François-B...