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VIRGINIE DESPENTES is a writer and filmmaker. Her first novel, Baise-Moi was published in 1992 and adapted for film in 2000. She is the author of over fifteen further novels, including Apocalypse Baby (2010) and Bye Bye Blondie (2004), and the autobiographical work, King Kong Theory (2006). She won the Prix de Flore in 1998 forLes Jolies Choses, the 2010 Prix Renaudot for Apocalypse Baby and Vernon Subutex One won the Prix AnaA s Nin in 2015, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker International in 2018.
Full of energy and blistering rationality, but generosity, too. This might be Despentes' wittiest and wisest novel yet. -- Lisa McInerney A must-read...While waiting for society to evolve, Virginie Despentes stays the same * Vogue * Brilliant - funny, wise and completely addictive - a work of angry, outrageous and hilarious genius. -- Victoria Hislop Virginie Despentes writes with a harpoon...A queer Castor. A grunge Jane Austen. A punk Pythia. A bacchante rebelling against the patriarchal order * Causeur * This is the paradox and, perhaps, the power of Virginie Despentes: to be seen as both a radical and mainstream, divisive and agreeable, raging and benevolent * L'Obs * She can capture all that makes up an era in a way nobody else can * Les Inrockuptibles * She is a flower in the asphalt and the queen of her time * En attendant Nadeau *
