Interview conducted by Pascal Schouwey, independent journalist. In partnership with the Histoire et Cité Festival.
Marie Darrieussecq describes herself as “atheist, feminist, and European.” She gained worldwide recognition at 27 with Truismes (1996), a sensual fable about a woman transforming into a pig, which sold over a million copies and was translated into around 40 languages. A graduate of the École Normale Supérieure, Darrieussecq has been a psychoanalyst, columnist, and author of books for children and art publications.
Known for her works such as Notre vie dans les forêts (2007) and Pas dormir (2021), she has remained loyal to the publishing house P.O.L. Her novel Il faut beaucoup aimer les hommes (2013) won both the Prix Médicis and the Prix des prix. Her twentieth novel, Fabriquer une femme (2024), explores the divergent paths of two childhood friends as they navigate adulthood through the 1980s and ’90s, a period marked by the AIDS epidemic, political struggles, technological revolutions, and societal pressures.
In French.
