Geneviève Brisac
Geneviève Brisac (ʒənvjɛv bʁizak; born 18 October 1951, in Paris) is a French writer. She is the winner of the Prix Femina in 1996 for Week-end de chasse à la mère, a novel translated in English as Losing Eugenio (2000) and referred to in The New York Times as a "mildly compelling text" and in Publishers Weekly as an "elegant narrative art". She also writes short stories and children's literature, and is a literary critic for Le Monde, and with Christophe Honoré she co-wrote the screenplay for Honoré's Non Ma Fille, Tu N'iras pas Danser (2009).
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Geneviève Brisac
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- Name
- Geneviève Brisac
- Born
- 18 October 1951
- Birthplace
- Paris
- Awards
- Prix Femina
- Full name
- Geneviève Alice Angeline Brisac.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- publisher, writer, novelist, screenwriter and literary critic.
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour, Officer of Arts and Letters, Prix Femina, Roland de Jouvenel Prize and Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.
- Languages
- French.
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Geneviève Brisac (ʒənvjɛv bʁizak; born 18 October 1951, in Paris) is a French writer. She is the winner of the Prix Femina in 1996 for Week-end de chasse à la mère, a novel translated in English as Losing Eugenio (2000) and referred to in The New York Times as a "mildly compelling text" and in Publishers Weekly as an "elegant narrative art". She also writes short stories and children's literature, and is a literary critic for Le Monde, and with Christophe Honoré she co-wrote the screenplay for Honoré's Non Ma Fille, Tu N'iras pas Danser (2009).
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Plagued by anorexia from childhood, she wrote an "auto-fictional" novel, Petite (1994), in which she recounts her struggle with the disease. She became very interested in Virginia Woolf, publishing V. W.: le mélange des genres (V. W.: the mixture of genres, with Agnès Desarthe, Paris: Éditions de l'Olivier, 2004), republished under the title of La double vie de Virginia Woolf (Paris: Points, 2008). Writer, editor, close to the NGO "Bibliothèques Sans Frontières" ("Libraries Without Borders"), she declared her love for books: "Books have saved my life several times. My debt is unlimited.".
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• Name — Geneviève Brisac • Born — 18 October 1951 • Birthplace — Paris • Language — French • Genre — Novel, screenplay, literary criticism, children's literature, short story • Notable Works — Week-end de chasse à la mère • Awards — Prix Femina
Publications
• Madame Placard, Paris, Gallimard, 1989. • Les filles, Paris, Gallimard, 1997. • Week-end de chasse à la mère, Paris, Seuil, 1998. • Une année avec mon père, Paris, Éd. de l'Olivier, 2010. • Pour qui vous prenez-vous?, Paris, Éd. de l'Olivier, 2001. • Petite, Paris, Éditions Points, 2015.
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- Dans les yeux des autres par Geneviève Brisac, The French Review, 2015
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- 1.Tous les lauréats du Prix Femina.
- 2.Courtivron, Isabelle de. The French Still Love a Succes de Scandale. The New York Times. 22 June 1997.
- 3.Losing Eugenio. Publishers Weekly.
- 4.Gandillot, Thierry. Geneviève Brisac fait court avec talent. L'Express. 3 May 2001.
- 5.Frasquet, Rébecca. Non ma fille, tu n'iras pas danser: Honoré filme sa Bretagne natale. Le Point. 2 September 2009.
- 6.Havercroft, Barbara. Unfitting stories: narrative approaches to disease, disability, and trauma. Wilfrid Laurier UP. 61–69. 2007. 978-0-88920-509-3.
- 7.Éd. de l'Olivier. V. W. : Le mélange des genres. 2004. 9782879294490.
- 8.Interview with Geneviève Brisac, 02/02/2011, "What future for literature?", Sens public, see http://sens-public.org/articles/813/
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