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Laure Murat is the daughter of the writer and film producer Napoléon Murat and historian Inès d'Albert de Luynes. In 1986, she began her career as a journalist first at Beaux-Arts Magazine, and then at l'Objet d'art . Laure Murata UCLA distinguished professor of French and Francophone studies, has received the Medicis Prize in the “essay,” or nonfiction, category, one of France’s top literature awards.Murat was honored for “Proust and Me: A Family Romance” (“Proust, roman familial”), a genre-busting book that examines the influence of Marcel Proust’s work on Murat’s own life.The work blends nonfiction, autobiography, literary and sociological analysis in exploring the interrelationship between Proust’s seminal novel “In Search of Lost Time” (“À la recherche du temps perdu”), a seven-volume masterpiece published between 1913 and 1927, Murat’s family history and her own personal journey.Both of Murat’s parents were descendants of French nobility, and her ancestor Joachim Murat was married to Caroline Bonaparte, Napoleon’s sister.

Murat, Laure

Laure Murat is the daughter of the writer and film producer Napoléon Murat and historian Inès d'Albert de Luynes. In 1986, she began her career as a journalist first at Beaux-Arts Magazine, and then at l'Objet d'art . Laure Murata UCLA distinguished professor of French and Francophone studies, has received the Medicis Prize in the “essay,” or nonfiction, category, one of France’s top literature awards.Murat was honored for “Proust and Me: A Family Romance” (“Proust, roman familial”), a genre-busting book that examines the influence of Marcel Proust’s work on Murat’s own life.The work blends nonfiction, autobiography, literary and sociological analysis in exploring the interrelationship between Proust’s seminal novel “In Search of Lost Time” (“À la recherche du temps perdu”), a seven-volume masterpiece published between 1913 and 1927, Murat’s family history and her own personal journey.Both of Murat’s parents were descendants of French nobility, and her ancestor Joachim Murat was married to Caroline Bonaparte, Napoleon’s sister.