Geneviève Brisac
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Geneviève Brisac | |
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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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- Prix Femina winners
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- French children's writers
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- Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
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