Yves Lenoir

Thirty years I have worked with words. First as a student of Modern Literature, then as a writer, a teacher, and today as a stage director in the world of opera. This trajectory is not a CV - it is a way of inhabiting language.

When you entrust me with a text, you are not entrusting a file to be corrected. You are entrusting something to someone who knows what it is to search for the right word, to stumble over a phrasing, to want what one writes to truly resemble what one thinks. I correct without distorting. I reformulate without betraying. And when a text needs to be entirely rewritten, I do it while staying in your voice, not mine.

I work mainly on artistic and cultural texts - opera librettos, plays, intention notes, grant applications for the DRAC or local authorities - but also on university theses and dissertations, professional content, cover letters, and CVs. I know the cultural world from the inside: when I reread a grant application, I know what the juries are reading. That's a difference that matters.

I am fluent in English, German, and Italian, which also allows me to work on bilingual or translated texts.