Geneviève Brisac
Geneviève Brisac is a French writer.Biography
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 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. Plagued by anorexia from childhood, she wrote an "auto-fictional" novel, Petite, in which she recounts her struggle with the disease.
She became very interested in Virginia Woolf, publishing V. W.: le mélange des genres, republished under the title of La double vie de Virginia Woolf.
Writer, editor, close to the NGO "Bibliothèques Sans Frontières", she declared her love for books: "Books have saved my life several times. My debt is unlimited.".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.
