Virginie Despentes
Virginie Despentes (born June 13, 1969 in Nancy ) is a French writer , director and feminist . In France she was already known in 1994 for her debut novel Baise-moi , in German-speaking countries mainly for the film version Baise-moi (Fick me!) , Which she directed herself.
life and work
Despentes grew up as the only daughter of simple postal workers who were committed to the left. Between 1986 and 1993 Despentes lived in Lyon , where The Untouched also plays, and has lived in Paris ever since . Your stage name Despentes refers to the Lyon district of Pentes de la Croix-Rousse . Today she commutes between Paris and Barcelona .
Her early novels tell of people living on the fringes of large French cities, of women and men between the ages of twenty and thirty who live on and with drugs, sex and petty crime. There are hardly any people who correspond to normal social norms with regard to work, home and family. The novel - and especially the film - Baise-moi sparked debate and scandals because it bluntly portrayed murder , rape, and indiscriminate sex. The heroine of her second novel The Untouched works in a peep show , the story begins with the murder of two of her colleagues. Teen Spirit's male lead is a retired punk musician who now spends his days smoking weed and watching TV. Happy endings are the exception, mostly a dark mood of frustration, self-destruction and ' no future ' colors the story.
In the following works, the subject of violence takes a back seat, but sexuality remains an important motif - both for the protagonists and for the plots. This corresponds to a line of tradition in French literature that remained dominant until 2000 and left prudishness out of the picture.
Her first novel in the trilogy Das Leben des Vernon Subutex , already published in France, was published in German in 2017 and has received numerous reviews, including on Spiegel Online , in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and in the Berliner Tagesspiegel . At the latest with the Vernon Subutex trilogy, her image in France changed from a former scandal writer to a feature favorite ; since then she has been perceived as the “female Balzac of the 21st century”.
In 2010 she was awarded the Prix Renaudot for the novel Apocalypse Baby . In 2015 she received the Prix Anaïs Nin for her novel Vernon Subutex 1 . On January 5, 2016, she was elected to succeed Régis Debray at the Académie Goncourt . Despentes was awarded the World Prize for Literature in 2018 for her complete works .
Works
Fiction
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Baise-moi - fuck me . Novel. Translator Kerstin Krolak, Jochen Schwarzer. Rowohlt, 2002 ISBN 3-499-23135-2
- Catch wolves. (Baise-moi. Florent Massot, 1993) Translated by Kerstin Krolak, Jochen Schwarzer. Rowohlt, 2000 (The book about the film)
- The untouched . Novel. (Les Chiennes savantes, Florent Massot, 1996) Rowohlt, 1999 ISBN 3-499-22911-0
- Pauline and Claudine . Novel. (Les Jolies Choses. Grasset, 1998) Translated by Michael Kleeberg . Rowohlt, 2001 ISBN 3-499-22647-2
- Teen spirit . (Teen Spirit. Grasset, 2002) Rowohlt, 2003 ISBN 3-499-23406-8
- Bye bye Blondie . (Bye Bye Blondie. Grasset, 2004) Rowohlt, 2006 ISBN 3-499-24162-5
- King Kong Theory (King Kong Théorie. Grasset, 2006), transl. Kerstin Krolak, Berlin Verlag, 2007 ISBN 3-8270-0755-0
- Apocalypse baby . Novel. (Apocalypse Bébé. Grasset, 2010) Translated by Dorit Gesa Engelhardt, Barbara Heber-Schärer. Berlin Verlag, 2012 ISBN 978-3-8270-1021-6
- The Life of Vernon Subutex , Part 1. Novel. (Vernon Subutex, 1, Grasset, 2015) Translated by Claudia Steinitz. Kiepenheuer & Witsch , 2017 ISBN 978-3-462-04882-7
- The Life of Vernon Subutex , Part 2. Novel. (Vernon Subutex, 2, Grasset, 2015) Translated by Claudia Steinitz. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2018 ISBN 978-3-462-05098-1
- The Life of Vernon Subutex , Part 3rd Novel. (Vernon Subutex, 3, Grasset, 2017) Translated by Claudia Steinitz. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2018 ISBN 978-3-462-05153-7
- King Kong Theory , (King Kong Théorie. Grasset, 2006) Translated by Barbara Heber-Schärer and Claudia Steinitz, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2018 ISBN 978-3-462-05239-8
Interviews
- Porn threatens male sexuality , Interview with Virginie Despentes, Jungle World 9, 2008
- Ijoma Mangold : Virginie Despentes: "Even with a beard I would be shy" . Die Zeit online 9./11. August 2017, print: No. 33, 2017 (interview)
- Felix Bayer: Star author Despentes "Talking to the extreme right? Does not help" . Spiegel Online, October 18, 2017 (Interview)
- Tania Martini: "We are all divas". She is a feminist and a celebrated author. Virginie Despentes talks about her new book "Vernon Subutex" and the lack of doubters. , taz from October 3, 2017 (interview)
Radio play adaptations
- King Kong theory . With Nora Abdel-Maksoud, Jule Böwe . Editing and direction: Elisabeth Putz. Production: DLR 2014.
- Apocalypse baby . Two-part radio play with Rosalie Thomas, Viola von der Burg , Paula O'Mara, Ilona Grandke, Rainer Buck and many others. Editing and direction: Martin Heindel . Production: Bayerischer Rundfunk 2019. As a podcast / download in the BR radio play pool.
Awards
- 2010: Prix Renaudot for Apocalypse Baby
- 2011: Lambda Literary Award in the LGBT Nonfiction category for King Kong Theory
- 2015: Prix Anaïs Nin for Vernon Subutex 1
- 2016: elected member of the Académie Goncourt
- 2018: World Literature Prize for her life's work
Web links
- Literature by and about Virginie Despentes in the catalog of the German National Library
- Virginie Despentes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kiepenheuer & Witsch: Publisher's note: The life of Vernon Subutex. Roman, 2017 with excerpt
- Perlentaucher.de: Virginie Despentes: The life of Vernon Subutex
- Dirk Fuhrig: book review. Virginie Despentes: "The Life of Vernon Subutex". From record seller to clochard . Deutschlandfunk Kultur, September 7, 2017 (radio and print)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Author at Grasset ( Memento of the original from November 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Interview by Alex Rühle: "Everything is so prudish" . In: sueddeutsche.de . 2018, ISSN 0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on March 20, 2018]).
- ↑ Interview with HorsPress from May 2002 (French).
- ↑ a b "French society has got a different face" , Virginie Despentes in an interview with Joachim Scholl on Deutschlandfunk Kultur on December 18, 2018, accessed December 19, 2018
- ^ Hannah Pilarczyk: literary sensation Vernon Subutex , Triumph der Tirade . Spiegel online, August 17, 2017
- ↑ Alex Rühle : "I think people would quickly be ready to piss each other off." Süddeutsche Zeitung, August 20, 2017
- ↑ Julia Encke: Meeting with Virginie Despents. Merge with Paris in writing . FAZ August 19, 2017
- ↑ Gerrit Bartels: The sky over Paris. Expansion of the pop and political zone: the French writer Virginie Despentes has written a fast-paced social novel, "The Life of Vernon Subutex". Tagesspiegel, August 19, 2017
- ^ Académie Goncourt Actualités
- ^ "An extraordinarily radical woman" , boersenblatt.net, published and accessed on October 5, 2018
- ^ Schwarzer in the translator database of the VdÜ , 2019
- ↑ Winner of the Stefan George Prize 2002, awarded by Heinrich Heine University
- ↑ Heber-Schärer in the translator database of the VdÜ, 2019
- ↑ Steinitz in the translator database of the VdÜ, 2019
- ↑ BR radio play pool - Despentes, Apocalypse Baby (2 parts)
- ↑ Jenn Reese: 23rd Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists and Winners. In: Lambda Literary. March 15, 2012, accessed March 27, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Despentes, Virginie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nancy , France |