Dominique Barbéris (born 1958) is a French novelist, author of literary studies and university professor, specializing in stylistics and writing workshops.

Her writing has been widely praised by the French press (Le Monde,[1] Le Figaro,[2] and press reviews[3]...) Her eleventh novel, Une façon d'aimer (A way of loving) received in 2023[4] the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française, one of the major French literary prizes : Madeleine, a discreet and melancholic beauty from the 1950s, who resembles the French actress Michèle Morgan, leaves her native Brittany to follow her husband to Cameroon, and finds herself immersed in a foreign, violent and magnificent world.

Her tenth novel, Un dimanche à Ville d'Avray, was translated under the name A Sunday in Ville-d'Avray in the United States[5] by John Cullen for Other Press and the United Kingdom[6] by Daunt Books : in the apparently peaceful of Paris suburb town Ville-d'Avray, two sisters get closer one Sunday, and one confides in the other and reveals her meeting with a man...

It has been translated in total in 7 countries (United States,[11] United Kingdom,[12] Germany,[13] Spain,[14] Poland,[15] Greece[16] and Lithuania[17]) Leading the Sorbonne University novel writing workshops, she published with the cultural service, at Éditions Sillage, 14 opus of Prose en Sorbonne, Writing workshops by Dominique Barbéris, corresponding, each year, to the best texts produced by her students.

Member of the reading committee of the Book review Europe, she has published numerous critical articles, literary studies (including a style study devoted to the Nobel prize writer Annie Ernaux) and prefaces in French at Editions Gallimard (including three recent ones devoted to classics of English literature: Emma by Jane Austen, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë).