Geneviève Brisac

Geneviève Brisac (born 18 October 1951, in Paris) is a French writer.

She is the winner of the Prix Femina in 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.

She became very interested in Virginia Woolf, publishing ''V. W.: le mélange des genres'' (''V. W .: the mixture of genres'', with Agnès Desarthe, Paris: Éditions de l'Olivier, 2004), republished under the title of ''La double vie de Virginia Woolf'' (Paris: Points, 2008).

Writer, editor, close to the NGO "Bibliothèques Sans Frontières" ("Libraries Without Borders"), she declared her love for books: "Books have saved my life several times. My debt is unlimited.". Provided by Wikipedia