Nobody knows much about Marie de France because at that time, women were only considered important through their relationships with their fathers, husbands and sons.
I thought I was going to go back and rip it all up, like you see with all these amazing new translations of Beowulf. I thought I would do a wild new version of her lais. I couldn’t do it in the midst of the Trump presidency with all these feelings of constant daily dread, so I had to look at things at a slant and see the roots of the contemporary world 1,000 years back.įor decades. To be honest, I was trying to write a novel about the contemporary world but it was so overwhelming that I didn’t feel I had enough distance to do justice to this incredibly complicated and difficult time that we’re living through. I love chivalric romances and I love that period. I studied French and English in college and for a while I thought I wanted to be a medievalist. What made you want to write about Marie de France? Groff now lives in Gainesville, Florida with her husband, Clay Kallman, and two children. Her latest novel, Matrix, is an inventive tale of 12th-century nunnery focusing on Marie de France, considered the first woman to write poetry (known as “lais”) in French. In 2018, she produced her first short story collection, Florida. Her second novel, Arcadia (2012), explored the failure of utopian communities in the 1970s, and her third, Fates and Furies, about an unconventional marriage, was picked by Barack Obama as his favourite book of 2015. L auren Groff, 43, grew up in Cooperstown, New York, a place she fictionalised as a picture-perfect town in her bestselling debut novel, The Monsters of Templeton (2008).
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