Geneviève Brisac
| Geneviève Brisac | |
|---|---|
| Born |
18 October 1951 (age 65) 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, a novel translated in English as Losing Eugenio (2000) and referred to in The New York Times as a "mildly compelling text." 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). Plagued by anorexia from childhood, she wrote an "auto-fictional" novel, Petite (1994), in which she recounts her struggle with the disease.
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