Marie Darrieussecq
Marie Darrieussecq was born in Bayonne in 1969 and is recognised as one of the leading voices of contemporary French literature. Her first novel, Pig Tales , was translated into thirty-five languages. In 2013 Darrieussecq was awarded the Prix Médicis and the Prix des Prix for her novel Men . She has written art criticism and journalism for a number of publications, including Libération and Charlie Hebdo , is a translator from English and has practised as a psychoanalyst. She lives in Paris.
Marie Darrieussecq was born in Bayonne in 1969 and is recognised as one of the leading voices of contemporary French literature. Her first novel, Pig Tales , was translated into thirty-five languages. In 2013 Darrieussecq was awarded the Prix Médicis and the Prix des Prix for her novel Men . She has written art criticism and journalism for a number of publications, including Libération and Charlie Hebdo , is a translator from English and has practised as a psychoanalyst. She lives in Paris. See less