Diversity of voices, diversity of languages : one week of events and readings in Lyon and in the Rhône-Alpes region.
Geneviève Brisac
Genevieve Brisac © Philippe Matsas/Opale
PUBLISHER / WRITER
France
Geneviève Brisac is a former student of the École Normale Supérieure and has passed the Agrégation examinations in Literature. She taught in Seine-Saint-Denis, before publishing her first books at the Éditions Gallimard. In 1994, she joins the Éditions de l'Olivier, the same year that she publishes Petite, a short, violent book on anorexia. Her novel Losing Eugenio (Week-end de chasse à la mère) received the Femina Prize in 1996.
Geneviève Brisac has written over ten other novels and essays on Flannery O’Connor, Grace Paley, Salinger, and Karen Blixen. Une année avec mon père received the Editeurs Prize. Her works have been translated in several languages.
She is a literary critic since 1983, in particular for Le Monde des Livres, and a publisher for children’s literature at the Ecole des Loisirs. She is also the author of numerous plays and film scenarii, and often participates in radio shows on France Culture.
