Marie �tienne is a French poet and novelist. In 2009, her book Roi des cent cavaliers and now translated into English as King of a Hundred Horseman won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. �tienne is the author of eleven books of poems and nine books of prose, which her translator Marilyn Hacker says "could be variously classed as fiction, memoir, and cultural history, some partaking of all three". From 1979 to 1988, Marie �tienne worked as assistant to the innovative French theater director Antoine Vitez, whose courses on the theater she had followed as part of her doctoral thesis research, at the Th��tre d?Ivry and the Th��tre national de Chaillot. Her work with Vitez, including transcriptions of her notebooks of the era, resulted in Antoine Vitez: Ie roman du th��tre, a book Hacker describes as "in a genre Americans would call literary memoir published a decade after the director?s death and almost twenty years after their collaboration. It offers an invaluable aper�u of a collaborative artistic endeavor and a signal era in contemporary French theater". 

January 1st, 1938 in France (Age 86)