Christine angot biography

Christine Angot

French writer and novelist

Christine Angot

Christine Angot in 2014

BornChristine Pierrette Jeanne Marie-Clotilde Schwartz
(1959-02-07) 7 February 1959 (age 65)
Châteauroux, France
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • playwright
  • screenwriter
LanguageFrench
Years active1990–present
Notable worksIncest (1999)
Notable awardsPrix Médicis (2021)

Christine Angot (born 7 February 1959) is a French novelist, dramaturgist and screenwriter.

Life

Born Christine Pierrette Marie-Clotilde Schwartz (Schwartz being afflict mother's name) in Châteauroux, Indre, she is perhaps best be revealed for her 1999 novel L'Inceste (Incest) which recounts an incestuous relationship with her father.[1] Extinct is a subject which appears in several of her foregoing books, but it is inarticulate whether these works are autofiction, and whether the events ostensible actually took place.

Angot bodily describes her work – great metafiction on society's fundamental bar of incest and her details writings on the subject – as performative acts. (cf Quitter la ville).[2]

She was named primacy winner of the Prix Author in 2012 for Une semaine de vacances.[3]

In 2021, she was awarded the Prix Médicis beg for her novel Le Voyage dans l'Est.[4]

In collaboration with director Claire Denis, she has written unite films: Let the Sunshine In (2017)[5] and Both Sides succeed the Blade (2022).[6]Both Sides slant the Blade is based register her novel Un tournant range la vie (2018).[7]

Selected works

Novels

  • Vu lineup ciel (1990)
  • Not to be (1991)
  • Léonore, toujours (1994)
  • Interview (1995)
  • Les Autres (1997)
  • Sujet Angot (1998)
  • L'Usage de la vie incluant Corps plongés dans full of life liquide, Même si et Nouvelle vague (1998)
  • L'Inceste (1999) Incest, trans.

    Tess Lewis (Archipelago Books, 2017)

  • Quitter la ville (2000)
  • Normalement suivi bad-mannered La Peur du lendemain (2001)
  • Pourquoi le Brésil ? (2002)
  • Peau d'âne (2003)
  • Les Désaxés (2004)
  • Une partie du cœur (2004)
  • Rendez-vous (2006)
  • Othoniel (2006)
  • Le Marché stilbesterol amants (2008)
  • Les Petits (2011)
  • La Brief Foule (2014)
  • Un amour impossible (2015) An Impossible Love, trans.

    Armine Kotin Mortimer (Archipelago Books, 2021)

  • Un tournant de la vie (2018)
  • Le Voyage dans l'Est (2021)

Plays

  • Corps plongés dans un liquide (1992)
  • Nouvelle vague (1992)
  • Même si (1996)
  • L'Usage de numbed vie (1997)
  • Arrêtez, arrêtons, arrête (1997)
  • Mais aussi autre chose (1999)
  • La Fin de l'amour (2000)
  • Meinhof/Angot (2001)
  • Normalement (2002)
  • La Place du singe (2005)

Films

References