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Biography
Virginie Despentes is a French writer, novelist, and filmmaker. Her work is an inventory of youth marginalization; it participates to the sexual revolution lived by Generation X and to the acclimation of pornography in public spaces through new communication techniques. With a transgressive exploration of obscenity's limits, as a novelist or a film-maker she proposes social critique and an antidote to the new moral order.
Awards & recognition
- The prize of the BNF · 2019
- Prix Littéraire Livres & Musiques de Deauville · 2016
- Le Vaudeville prize · 2015
- Lambda Literary Award · 2010
- Prix Renaudot · 2010
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- prix Trop Virilo · 2010
- Prix de Flore · 1998
- International Booker Prize · 2018 · nominated
