Christiane Rochefort (July 17, 1917–April 24, 1998)[1] was a French feminist writer. She was born into a left-wing working class Parisian family; her father joined the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War.[2][3] Rochefort worked as a journalist and spent fifteen years as a press attache to the Cannes Film Festival before publishing her first novel, Le Repos du guerrier (The Warrior's Rest), in 1958. Like several of her later novels, Le Repos du guerrier was a bestseller; in 1962 it was adapted into a popular film directed by Roger Vadim and starring Brigitte Bardot.[1][2]
Her novels are divided between social realist satires set in present-day France and utopian or dystopian fantasies.[4] She won the Prix Médicis in 1988. Rochefort's novels also have
strong sexual elements.[5]
Novels
- Le repos du guerrier (1958)
- Les petits enfants du siècle (1961)
- Les stances à Sophie (1963)
- Une rose pour Morrison (1966)
- Printemps au parking (1969)
- Archaos, ou le Jardin Etincelant (1972)
- Encore heureux qu'on va vers l'été (1975)
- Quand tu vas chez les femmes (1982)
- La porte du fond (1988) Prix Médicis
- Conversations sans paroles (1997)
See also
Notes
References
- Jean-Louis de Rambures, "Comment travaillent les écrivains", Paris 1978 (interview with Ch. Rochefort, in French)
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French writer |
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1917 |
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