Prix Femina
1 appearances
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Edition 93 (1996) Winner
Geneviève Brisac
ジネヴィエーヴ・ブリサック
Geneviève Brisac
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1951-10-18 （Paris）
- Nationality
- France
- Languages
- French
- Residence History
- Paris
Career
- Occupations
- novelist, screenwriter, literary critic, children's literature author, short story writer
- Active Years
- 1989-2024
- Affiliations
- Le Monde
- Influenced By
- Virginia Woolf
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Prix Femina | Week-end de chasse à la mère | — | Prix Femina Jury | 受賞 |
Prix Femina
1996
Work:
Week-end de chasse à la mère
Organization:
Prix Femina Jury
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Week-end de chasse à la mère
1996 NovelA novel about a family's weekend hunt for the mother.
familyloss
Translations
- Losing Eugenio (English translation)
Bibliography
- Madame Placard, Paris, Gallimard, 1989.
- Petite, Paris, 1994.
- Les filles, Paris, Gallimard, 1997.
- Week-end de chasse à la mère, Paris, Seuil, 1998.
- Pour qui vous prenez-vous ?, Paris, Éd. de l'Olivier, 2001.
- Une année avec mon père, Paris, Éd. de l'Olivier, 2010.
- Petite, Paris, Éditions Points, 2015.
- V. W.: le mélange des genres (with Agnès Desarthe), Paris, Éditions de l'Olivier, 2004.
- Non Ma Fille, Tu N'iras pas Danser (screenplay with Christophe Honoré), 2009.
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- elegant narrativeauto-fictional
- Recurring Motifs
- anorexiafamily relationslove for books
Health
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Anorexia nervosa幼少期からStruggle depicted in auto-fictional novel Petite.
Legacy
Known as Prix Femina winner, acclaimed for works on family and personal struggles.
Quotes
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Books have saved my life several times. My debt is unlimited.
Source: Sens public interview (2011)
Trivia
- Strong interest in Virginia Woolf.
- Supporter of NGO Bibliothèques Sans Frontières.