Writing · Director · Novel · Screenplay
Born Jun 13, 1969 · Nancy, France
Active 1996–present · Awards: Prix de Flore, Prix Renaudot, Lambda Literary Award, prix Trop Virilo, Le Vaudeville prize, Prix Littéraire Livres & Musiques de Deauville, The prize of the BNF
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…