Virginie Despentes

Virginie Despentes

Virginie Despentes (French: [depɑ̃t]; born 13 June 1969) is a French writer, novelist, and filmmaker. Her work is an inventory of youth marginalization; it participates to the sexual revolution lived by Generation X and to the acclimation of pornography in public spaces through new communication techniques. With a transgressive exploration of obscenity's limits, as a novelist or a film-maker she proposes social critique and an antidote to the new moral order. Her characters deal with misery and injustice, self-violence such as toxicomany, or violence towards others such rape or terrorism, violences she also had suffered from. She is a member of the académie Goncourt from the 5th of January 2016.

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