Joëlle Wintrebert

[1][2] She first worked in the audio-visual industry, handling tasks usually forgotten in the credits in television scripts, notably for Arpad, the Gypsy (1973-1974), Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea and Rahan [fr] (1985-1987).

[4] She wrote reviews and columns for a number of magazines, including Fiction, L'Inconnu, Creepy, Vampirella and L'Écho des savanes.

[3] She collaborated with her companion Henri Lehalle on L'Amie-nuit, a book of poetic texts and photos featuring the two authors, often nude, with a fantasy tinge.

[5][6] Les Olympiades truquées (1980, rewritten in 1987) and Bébé-miroir (1988) were created in parallel, and are two coming of age novels, each featuring teenage girls who have everything working against them.

[7][3] Chromoville [fr], a novel published in 1984, takes place in a dystopian city organized around castes, identified by colours: red for workers, blue for merchants, purple for town planners...

For Roland C. Wagner : this is without doubt the author's most accomplished creation of a universe, and certain passages are reminiscent of a hypothetical Jack Vance who knew the heat of the emotionsThe novella Hétéros et Thanatos, published in Univers 1982 [fr], is according to Wagner : at once poetic and unrelentingly darkIt follows the history of Sélen le chorège, one of the characters from Chromoville.

[7] Le Créateur chimérique (1988) begins with the short story La Créode (Prix Rosny aîné 1988), in which she imagines humans reproducing by parthenogenesis.

[4] The same year, she becomes a member of the jury for the French SF award Grand prix de l'Imaginaire.

The title refers to the notion of Eden, while also constituting a humoristic nudge at her activity as an amateur beekeeper.

[9] The story follows three protagonists who each in their own specific way rebel against the established order which allows women kidnappings and gender inequality.

Joëlle Wintrebert at the Utopiales in 2014.