Julia Kristeva

H Joulia Kristeva was born in 1941 in Bulgaria. In 1966, she moved to Paris to complete her dissertation on French literature. A globally recognized theorist, she has worked in the fields of linguistics, psychoanalysis, literature, and political theory. She is currently a professor at the Institut Universitaire de France and teaches 20th-century literature at the University of Paris VII - Denis Diderot, as well as serving as a visiting professor at Columbia University, the University of Toronto, and the New School for Social Research in New York. In 2004, she was awarded the Holberg Prize for her body of work and in 2006, the Hannah Arendt Prize. Her books are published in America by Columbia University Press. Her published works include: "In the Beginning Was Love" (Agra, 1988), "The Samurai" (novel, Govostis), "The Old Man and the Wolves" (Maya Editions, 1993), "Nations Without Nationalism" (Alternative Editions, 1997), "New Maladies of the Soul" (Kastaniotis, 1998), "Possessions" (novel, Patakis, 1998), "Black Sun" (Kastaniotis, 2000), "The Feminine and the Sacred" co-authored with Catherine Clement (Psychogios, 2001), "Strangers to Ourselves" (Scripta, 2004), "Murder in Byzantium" (novel, Patakis, 2004). Her most recent books in France include: "Le Genie feminin: Arendt, Klein, Colette" (3 volumes, Fayard 1999-2002), "Meurtre a Byzance" (Fayard, 2004), "La Haine et le Pardon" (Fayard, 2005), and "Seule une femme" (Bord de l’Eau, 2007). More information can be found on her official website: www.kristeva.fr.