Isabelle Wéry
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Biography
Isabelle Wéry is a Belgian actress, theatre director and author. Born in Liège, she studied acting at INSAS in Brussels until 1991. In parallel with her work as an actress with a variety of directors, she writes and creates her own theatre works.
Three times nominated for the Prix de la Critique de Théâtre Belge (for the Seul en Scène category), she received the prize in 2008 for her original theatre piece La tranche de Jean-Daniel Magnin.
Her written debut for the stage was with La mort du cochon, for which she received her first nomination for the Prix du Theatre. At the Théâtre de la Vie, she directed her two other texts: Mademoiselle Ari nue and Juke-Box et Almanach. Ceci est mon corps, based on La vie sexuelle de Catherine M by Catherine Millet, is one of her latest creations for the stage. She also wrote Le Bazar des organes for the Compagnie SKBL, touring all over France.
She is also the author of the novel Monsieur René, an imaginary biography of the Belgian actor René Hainaux, as well as Saisons culottes amis (Yvette’s Poems), published in 2010. In 2013, her short story Skaï was published as part of a collection of Belgian authors, Feuillton, and her novel Marilyn désossée was published in 2013.
Nominated book : Marilyn désossée (Marilyn Deboned)
Summary
Marilyn Turkey writes a novel. Ever since her childhood, she has been fascinated by romantic encounters and inhabited by ideas of duos, complicity, pacts, “love undertakings” and amicable partnerships. While she is writing this novel, she revisits fragments of her life and becomes immersed in the memories of her intimate and explicit encounters.
Marilyn Deboned is a road-movie in three acts: the first act when she is aged between six and eight, the second part as a young adult and the third act in the “here and now”. It’s the story of an exploration and a digression. What are the diverse forms in which love is embodied? What is this crazy thing that suddenly brings together two creatures for a unique moment? Marilyn’s exploration knows no limits. She searches everywhere she feels like, including the world of humans, the world of animals, and the world of plants.
“Je crois que j’ai écrit un road-movie traversant la vie d’une fille, Marilyn Turkey, qui aimerait bien être et homme et femme, puis animaux et quelque chose de végétation”. (Isabelle Wéry)

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Related publications
EUPL Retrospective Box
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EUPL 10th Anniversary Publication – European Stories
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EUPL Anthology 2013
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