Geneviève Brisac, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Geneviève Brisac

French writer

Date of Birth: 18-Oct-1951

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Profession: screenwriter, writer, publisher, literary critic, children's writer, novelist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Geneviève Brisac (born 18 October 1951 in Paris) is a French writer and winner of the Prix Femina, 1996, for Week-end de chasse à la mère, a novel translated in English as Losing Eugenio (2000) and referred to in The New York Times as a "mildly compelling text" and in Publishers Weekly as an "elegant narrative art".
She also writes short stories and children's literature, and is a literary critic for Le Monde, and with Christophe Honoré she co-wrote the screenplay for Honoré's Non Ma Fille, Tu N'iras pas Danser (2009).
Plagued by anorexia from childhood, she wrote an "auto-fictional" novel, Petite (1994), in which she recounts her struggle with the disease.