Anne Berest

Anne Berest
Anne Berest at the Brive-la-Gaillarde book fair in 2010
Anne Berest at the Brive-la-Gaillarde book fair in 2010
Born (1979-09-15) 15 September 1979 (age 45)
Paris, France
OccupationWriter, actress
Notable awardsGrand prix de l'héroïne Madame Figaro de la biographie (2018)
RelativesClaire Berest (sister)
Francis Picabia (great-grandfather)
Gabrièle Buffet-Picabia (great-grandmother)
Lelia Picabia (mother)

Anne Berest (born 15 September 1979) is a French writer and actress.

Biography

In 2008 she adapted Patrick Modiano's short autobiography Un Pedigree for the theatre with Edouard Baer.[1] Denis Westhoff [fr], son of Françoise Sagan asked Berest to write about the creation of his mother's novel, Bonjour Tristesse.[2] The resulting book, Sagan 1954, was well received by critics: Berest "searched for and found les mot justes".[3]

In 2017, with her sister Claire Berest, she wrote a biography of her great-grandmother Gabrièle Buffet-Picabia. With Gabriële, the Berest sisters succeeded in bringing attention to their great-grandmother's often overlooked life and influence in the art world, specifically within the Dada movement.[4]

Her novel La Carte Postale (The Postcard), was published in 2021 in French [5] and translated into English in 2023 by Tina Kover. [6] The autobiographical novel is entirely based on real events that happened throughout Berest's life. [7] It tells the stories of Anne Berest's relatives' experience during World War Two by piecing together the research that Anne and her mother did to learn more about where they came from. [8] In the novel, Anne becomes determined to figure out who sent her family a mysterious postcard in 2003 with the names of their family members who died in Auschwitz written on the back. [9] In 2021 La Carte Postale made the final selection for the Prix Goncourt[10] as well as the Prix Renaudot.[11]

Books

  • La Fille de son père, éditions du Seuil, 2010, ISBN 978-2-02-102783-9
  • Les Patriarches, éditions Grasset, 2012 ISBN 978-2-246-80084-2
  • Sagan 1954, éditions Stock, 2014, ISBN 978-2-234-07740-9
  • How to be Parisian wherever you are (with Audrey Diwan, Caroline de Maigret and Anne Berest, Doubleday, 2014, ISBN 978-0-09-195809-1
  • Recherche femme parfaite, éditions Grasset, 2015, ISBN 978-2-246-85244-5
  • Gabriële (with Claire Berest), éditions Stock, 2017 ISBN 978-2-234-08618-0
  • La Visite, suivi de Les Filles de nos filles, Actes Sud, 2020, ISBN 978-2-330-13154-8
  • La Carte postale, éditions Grasset, 2021 ISBN 9782246820505; translated into English in 2023 by Tina Kover, The Postcard

Screenwriter

References

  1. ^ Silber, Martine (5 May 2008). "La vie antérieure de Modiano dans la voix d'Edouard Baer" [The previous life of Modiano in the voice of Edouard Baer]. Le Monde (in French). Paris. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
  2. ^ Leyris, Raphaëlle (10 May 2014). "Sagan nostalgie" [Sagan nostalgia]. Le Monde (in French). Paris. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
  3. ^ Delorme, Marie-Laure (14 May 2014). "Anne Berest et Françoise Sagan, une amitié paradoxale" [Anne Berest and Françoise Sagan, a paradoxical friendship]. Le Journal du Dimanche (in French). Paris. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
  4. ^ Koutchoumoff, Lisbeth (1 September 2017). ""Que voulez-vous, ma femme a un cerveau érotique..."" ["What do you want, my wife has an erotic brain"]. Le Temps (in French). Lausanne. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
  5. ^ "La carte postale (Grand format - Broché 2021), de Anne Berest | Grasset". www.grasset.fr (in French). Retrieved 30 July 2024.
  6. ^ "The Postcard - Anne Berest". Europa Editions. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
  7. ^ Simon, Scott (13 May 2023). "Anne Berest's novel traces her family history and leads back to the Holocaust". National Public Radio (Radio Interview). Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  8. ^ Orringer, Julie (16 May 2023). "An Autobiographical Novel Reclaims a Jewish History in Occupied France". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
  9. ^ Seiffert, Rachel (4 October 2023). "The Postcard by Anne Berest review – an autofictional tale of family survival". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
  10. ^ "Prix Goncourt 2021 : plus que 9 romans en lice et de nouvelles règles" [Prix Goncourt 2021: only 9 novels in contention and some new rules]. L'Obs (in French). Paris. 5 October 2021. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
  11. ^ "Prix Renaudot 2021 : la 2e sélection est tombée" [Prix Renaudot 2021: the second selection has been announced]. L'Obs (in French). Paris. 7 October 2021. Retrieved 8 October 2021.


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