French actress Sophie Marceau takes her first novel to UK literary festival.

(28 May 2001) SHOTLIST APTN, 26th May 2001, Hay On Wye, UK. 1. WS village festival 2. CU festival sign 3. Girl browsing by outdoor bookshelf 4. Man sitting and reading 5. Time lapse, people filling lecture hall 6. B-roll Sophie Marceau arrives in lecture hall 7. SOT SOPHIE MARCEAU (on why she wrote the book) - "Why do we write? I've always been writing, so.. one day it has become a book, but erm.. maybe it's a natural process you know, after a long time of discipline, which I didn't have at these days.. but now, working every day when I'm not doing anything else like a movie, like being an actress, you know. I've always been writing,so..." 8. WS Q & A session 9. CU book 10. CA audience 11. SOT SOPHIE MARCEAU (on book 'Telling Lies') - "Telling Lies', it's because between this and this you never know.. You make choices in your life, but... it's very difficult to be objective, you know, to find where the balance is, because we're full of contradictions, full of extremes and it's hard to put them together and to make something with it." 12. People in street browsing 13. CU Clinton book 14. SOT SOPHIE MARCEAU (on meeting former president Clinton during stay) - " I think he was a very good President and I'm so... again thankful that we meet, you know, on the same land, at the same moment. It's going to be a big dinner. It's going to be like 600 people, but I want to listen to him. I think it's nice to say goodbye.. the way he does.. and he was an important and good president for the world." 15. MS Sophie Marceau at Q & A 16 CA audience 17 Sophie Marceau answers question from floor 18. WS audience 19. SOT SOPHIE MARCEAU (on travelling with English translation of book)- "To be translated in English, it's like a great.. I was so happy and so proud of it so.. the object exists... so.. which is so important - it's something you did, on your own. And then you travel with it and you exchange it you know. It's nice. 20. GVs visitors browse around festival site SOPHIE MARCEAU MAKES LITERARY DEBUT French actress Sophie Marceau made her English language literary this weekend when she launched the translation her first novel "Telling Lies" at a British literary festival. The festival takes place in the very literary and picturesque Welsh/English border town of Hay-On-Wye. It has become a highbrow haven that actracts writers like Louis de Bernieres ('Captain Corelli's Mandolin') and Germaine Greer ('The Female Eunuch') and former US presidents like Bill Clinton. Marceau talked about her book in front of an audience of literary buffs and film fans before being subjected to an intellectual interrogation from the floor. "Telling Lies" is a stream of consciousness novel about an un-named yet famous French actress who is so accustomed to acting and lying she isn't sure who she really is. Described as "beautifully crafted" and "elegant and teasing", the novel meanders through the actresses past, taking in her previous affairs, dog walking sessions and afternoons spent smoking in her apartment considering things un-namable and un-knowable. For Marceau there was no great decision to write a novel, as the actress, the common law wife of Ukrainian director Andrzej Zulawski, says she is always writing. But that doesn't mean she isn't proud of having a novel not only published, but also now translated into English. Now a sex symbol and icon who rivals Bridget Bardot at the peak of her fame, Sophie Marceau began life in an unassuming French suburb, the daughter of a truck driver. "Telling Lies" on sale in Britain and Europe. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...