What is Marine Bachelot Nguyen?
'''Marine Bachelot Nguyen''' (born 1978) is a French-Vietnamese writer and director . She won the 2019 Sony Labou Tansi Prize, and the 2019 Primeurs Prize.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Marine Bachelot Nguyen|url=https://www.gorki.de/en/company/marine-bachelot-nguyen|access-date=2024-03-22|website=Marine Bachelot Nguyen {{!}} Gorki|language=en}}</ref> In 2004, she co-founded the authors' collective and theatre company ''Lumière d'août'' in Rennes. Her work explores the alliance of fiction and document, interrogating politics and feminist and postcolonial issues. == Life[edit] == Marine Bachelot Nguyen studied literature and performing arts in Rennes and Genoa. In 2001, she began teaching in Bressuire and at the Rennes 2 University. She wrote a thesis on the changes in militant theatre in Europe.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Marine Bachelot Nguyen {{!}} ARTCENA|url=https://www.artcena.fr/auteurs-soutenus/marine-bachelot|access-date=2024-03-22|website=www.artcena.fr|language=fr-FR}}</ref> From 2002 to 2007, she worked for the Théâtre de Folle pensée as a playwright.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Marine Bachelot Nguyen|url=https://www.lumieredaout.net/home/creations/156-marine-bachelot|access-date=2024-03-22|website=www.lumieredaout.net}}</ref> She participated in several residencies as part of the Authors' Laboratory convened by Roland Fichet, Pièces d'identités in 2003-2004, Mousson d'été in 2005, Mousson d'hiver in 2006 and the biennial Nouvelles pièces d'Europe in Wiesbaden in June 2004. In 2004, she founded the company Lumière d'août in Rennes with Alexis Fichet, Alexandre Koutchevsky, Juliette Pourquery de Boisserin, Laurent Quinton and Nicolas Richard.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Marine Bachelot Nguyen|url=https://www.lumieredaout.net/home/creations/156-marine-bachelot|access-date=2024-03-22|website=www.lumieredaout.net}}</ref> She created her first play ''Artemisia Vulgaris'' in Saint-Brieuc, directed by Alexis Fichet. She directed it in 2007 at the Théâtre de la Paillette in Rennes. She started the project ''Short Political Pieces'',