Jacqueline Pigeot's Profile

Professor Emeritus, Paris Diderot (7) University

1939 Born Orleans, France
1963 Graduated from a Normal teaching school for girls’ high schools
Passed the Agrégation civil service competitive examination (in classic French)
1963-1967 Taught in a High School in the city of Sevres
1966 Graduated from the The National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Japanese language department)
1967-1970 researcher at the Maison Franco-japonaise
1970 Paris 7 University full-time lecturer
1974 Paris 7 University assistant instructor
1979 PhD in Literature
1981 Paris 7 University Instructor
1988 Awarded the Yamagata Banto Prize (Travel scenes in plays - The Poetic road in the literature of ancient Japan)
1989 Foreign researcher at the National Institute of Japanese Literature 　
1998 One of the 7 awardees of the 5th Japanese-French Translated Literature Award (selected works of Junichiro Tanizaki)
1999-onwards Paris Diderot (7) University Professor Emeritus

Translation

Classical literature

• Bulletin de la Maison franco-japonaise IX-2 / P.U.F., 1972.
• An Account of a Journey to the East (translation and commentary), Le Promeneur (Gallimard), 1999.
• The Gossamer Journal (954-974) the mother of Fujiwara no Michitsuna, (translation and commentary), Collège de France –Institut des Hautes Études Japonaises, Paris, 2006.
• Kamo no Chômei, Nameless notes, translated jointly with classical literature group, Le Bruit du temps, 2010.
Modern Literature

• “The Last Testament of Okitsu Yagoemon” (Mori Ôgai), Les Noix, la Mouche, le Citron, éd. Le Calligraphe, 1986.
• “Money (Memories of a hundred-yen note)” (Dazai Osamu), Les Ailes, la Grenade, les Cheveux blancs, éd. Ph. Picquier, 1986.
• “Passage to Fudaraku (Notes of those who set sail to the Pure Land)” (Inoue Yasushi), Anthologie de nouvelles japonaises contemporaines, Gallimard, 1986.
• “Peacocks” (Mishima Yukio), Les Paons, la Grenouille, le Moine-Cigale, éd. Ph. Picquier, 1988.
• “The two acolytes”, “Longing for Mother”, “Yoshino”, “A blind man’s tale” (Junichiro Tanizaki) dans Tanizaki Oeuvres I, coll. “La Pléiade”, Gallimard, 1997.
• “Captain Shigemoto’s Mother” (Junichiro Tanizaki) dans Tanizaki Oeuvres II, coll.　“La Pléiade”, Gallimard, 1998.