Viviane Forrester

Viviane Forrester (born 29 September 1925 Paris) is a writer, essayist, novelist and literary critic. She works for Le Monde, Le Nouvel Observateur and Quinzaine littéraire and is a member of the jury of the Prix Femina. She became famous internationally with her books on political affairs. In L'Horreur économique and Une étrange dictature she criticizes the globalisation of society.

Awards

She won the Prix Goncourt de la Biographie in 2009 for her biography of Virginia Woolf.. She also won the Prix Femina de l'essai in 1983 for her biography of VanGogh an the Prix Médicis de l'essai in 1996 for "LHorreur économique".Since 1992, she is a member of the Jury of the Prix Femina.

Works

• , The New Statesman, 24 May 1999

• Ainsi des exilés, Denoël, 1970

°Le Grand festin. Denoël.1971

• Le corps entier de Marigda Denoël 1976
• Vestiges Seuil. 1978
• La Violence du calme, Seuil, 1980
• Van Gogh ou l'enterrement dans les blés, Seuil, 1983, ISBN 978-2-02-006444-6
• Le Jeu des poignards. Gallimard. 1985
• L'Oeil de la nuit Grasset, 1986
• Mains, Séguier, 1988. 1OOI nuits 1998
• Ce Soir, après la guerre. Lattès 1992. Fayard 1997
• L'Horreur économique, Fayard : Centre d'Exportation du Livre Francais, 1996, ISBN 978-2-253-14601-8
• , Wiley-Blackwell, 1999, ISBN 978-0-7456-1994-1
• Une étrange dictature, Fayard,Paris 2000
• Le Crime occidental. Fayard 2004
• Mes Passions de toujours, Fayard......
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