Geneviève Brisac

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Geneviève Brisac
Born 18 October 1951
Paris
Language French
Genre Novel, screenplay, literary criticism, children's literature, short story
Notable works Week-end de chasse à la mère
Notable awards Prix Femina

Geneviève Brisac (born 18 October 1951 in Paris) is a French writer and winner of the Prix Femina, 1996, for Week-end de chasse à la mère,[1] a novel translated in English as Losing Eugenio (2000)[2] and referred to in The New York Times as a "mildly compelling text."[3] She also writes short stories and children's literature, and is a literary critic for Le Monde,[4] and with Christophe Honoré she co-wrote the screenplay for Honoré's Non Ma Fille, Tu N'iras pas Danser (2009).[5] Plagued by anorexia from childhood, she wrote an "auto-fictional" novel, Petite (1994), in which she recounts her struggle with the disease.[2]

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