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Geneviève
Brisac was born in Paris into a family of leftist Anglophile
intellectuals.
Trained as a teacher and an
agrégée in literature, she taught in Seine-Saint-Denis. In 1994, she
published Petite, a slim violent book dealing with anorexia.
Her novel
Week-end de
chasse à la mère received the
prix Femina
in 1996 and was published in the United Kingdom in 1999, under the
title Losing Eugenio. An essayist, novelist and short story
writer, she is the author of over ten novels and essays. Her latest
work, Une année avec mon père, which came out in 2010, won
the prix des Editeurs. Her work has been translated into several
languages. A literary critic since 1983, in particular for le
Monde des Livres, she is also the author of plays and film
scenarios and is often on France Culture. Since 2007, she has been
involved with Bibliothèques Sans Frontières, a young French NGO
aimed at facilitating access to knowledge in developing countries.
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