Geneviève Brisac

Who is Geneviève Brisac?

Geneviève Brisac 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 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. Plagued by anorexia from childhood, she wrote an "auto-fictional" novel, Petite, in which she recounts her struggle with the disease.