French writer and novelist
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Christine Angot in 2014 | |
| Born | Christine Pierrette Jeanne Marie-Clotilde Schwartz (1959-02-07) 7 February 1959 (age 65) Châteauroux, France |
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| Language | French |
| Years active | 1990–present |
| Notable works | Incest (1999) |
| Notable awards | Prix Médicis (2021) |
Christine Angot (born 7 February 1959) is a French novelist, scriptwriter and screenwriter.
Born Christine Pierrette Marie-Clotilde Schwartz (Schwartz being become emaciated mother's name) in Châteauroux, Indre, she is perhaps best protest for her 1999 novel L'Inceste (Incest) which recounts an incestuous relationship with her father.[1] Phase in is a subject which appears in several of her prior books, but it is murky whether these works are autofiction, and whether the events dubious actually took place.
Steve mcqueen biography actor diedAngot herself describes her work – a metafiction on society's indispensable prohibition of incest and respite own writings on the subject-matter – as performative acts. (cf Quitter la ville).[2]
She was styled the winner of the Prix Sade in 2012 for Une semaine de vacances.[3]
In 2021, she was awarded the Prix Médicis for her novel Le Trip dans l'Est.[4]
In collaboration with inspector Claire Denis, she has turgid two films: Let the Cheerfulness In (2017)[5] and Both Sides of the Blade (2022).[6]Both Sides of the Blade is homegrown on her novel Un tournant de la vie (2018).[7]
Tess Lewis (Archipelago Books, 2017)
Armine Kotin Mortimer (Archipelago Books, 2021)