Anne Berest
Author of The Postcard
About the Author
Image credit: Anne Berest, french writer, Brive la Gaillarde book fair, France, 2010 11 06 By Le grand Cricri - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19158155
Works by Anne Berest
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- Birthdate
- 1979-09-15
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- France
- Places of residence
- Paris, France
Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, France - Education
- Lycée Fénelon, Paris
- Occupations
- writer
actor
novelist
screenwriter
playwright
biographer - Relationships
- Berest, Claire (sister)
Baer, Édouard (co-author)
Buffet-Picabia, Gabriële (great-grandmother)
Picabia, Francis (great-grandfather) - Organizations
- Collectif 50/50
- Short biography
- Anne Berest grew up in Sceaux, a suburb south of Paris. She earned her baccalauréat after studying French literature in high school and went to work at the Théatre du Rond-Point in Paris. She left the theater in 2006 to co-found a small publishing house called Porte-plume that produced micro-editions of biographies for families. In 2008-2010, she adapted Patrick Modiano's short autobiography Un Pedigree as a play with Édouard Baer. She published her debut novel, La Fille de son père (Her Father's Daughter) in 2010. Denis Westhoff, the son of Françoise Sagan, commissioned her to write a book for the 60th anniversary of his mother's most famous novel, Bonjour Tristesse. The result was Sagan 1954 (2014), a novel that was well-received by critics. In 2017, with her sister Claire Berest, she wrote a biography of their maternal great-grandmother Gabrièle Buffet-Picabia. The Berest sisters succeeded in bringing attention to their ancestor's often overlooked life and influence in the art world, specifically within the Dada movement. La carte postale (2021; The Postcard, 2023), is "un roman vrai" (a true novel), a mostly nonfiction exploration of her Jewish family's past during World War II. The book won the inaugural Goncourt Prize USA in 2021. Ms. Berest is also the co-author with Audrey Diwan and Caroline de Maigret of the bestselling How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are (2014). She is also a screenwriter and a member of Collectif 50/50, which aims to promote equality between women and men and diversity in cinema and audiovisual arts.
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- Works
- 10
- Members
- 830
- Popularity
- #30,757
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 46
- ISBNs
- 53
- Languages
- 13
The resolution of who sent the title Postcard was, I thought, weak. But I still appreciated the unique perspective this book brought to my knowledge of this terrible episode of human history.… (more)