Florence Delay

Biography

Florence Delay was a French writer and actress born on March 19, 1941. A member of the Académie française since 2000, she wrote novels, essays, and plays in collaboration with Jacques Roubaud and translated texts from Spanish. Her notable roles include Joan of Arc in Robert Bresson's 1962 film The Trial of Joan of Arc and narrator in Michelangelo Antonioni's "Sans Soleil" (1983).