Marie Darrieussecq was born in Bayonne in 1969. Her first novel, Pig Tales, was translated into thirty-five languages. She has published more than twenty books and been awarded numerous prizes. Text has published Tom Is Dead, All the Way, Men, Being Here: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker, Our Life in the Forest, The Baby, Crossed Lines, Sleepless and How to Make a Woman. Darrieussecq has written art criticism and journalism, is a translator from English and has practised as a psychoanalyst. She lives in Paris.

Writing… And then Writing Again: Marie Darrieussecq Explores the Art of Storytelling
Marie Darrieussecq teaches an online course for the University of Arizona College of Humanities, March 29 – April 17, 2023   

Read why Marie Darrieussecq joined Charlie Hebdo after the 2015 terror attack, in an interview with the Australian.
Marie Darrieussecq on Georges Perec in Asymptote

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