Christine Angot


Christine Angot is a French novelist, playwright and screenwriter.

Life

Born Christine Pierrette Marie-Clotilde Schwartz in Châteauroux, Indre, she is perhaps best known for her 1999 novel L'Inceste (Incest) which recounts an incestuous relationship with her father. It is a subject which appears in several of her previous books, but it is unclear whether these works are autofiction, and whether the events described actually took place. Angot herself describes her work – a metafiction on society's fundamental prohibition of incest and her own writings on the subject – as performative acts..
She was named the winner of the Prix Sade in 2012 for Une semaine de vacances.
In 2021, she was awarded the Prix Médicis for her novel Le Voyage dans l'Est.
In collaboration with director Claire Denis, she has written two films: Let the Sunshine In and Both Sides of the Blade. Both Sides of the Blade is based on her novel Un tournant de la vie.

Selected works

Novels

Vu du ciel Not to be Léonore, toujours Interview Les Autres Sujet Angot L'Usage de la vie incluant Corps plongés dans un liquide, Même si et Nouvelle vague L'Inceste ''Incest, trans. Tess Lewis Quitter la ville Normalement suivi de La Peur du lendemain Pourquoi le Brésil ? Peau d'âne Les Désaxés Une partie du cœur Rendez-vous Othoniel Le Marché des amants Les Petits La Petite Foule Un amour impossible An Impossible Love, trans. Armine Kotin Mortimer Un tournant de la vie Le Voyage dans l'Est''

Plays

Corps plongés dans un liquide Nouvelle vague Même si L'Usage de la vie Arrêtez, arrêtons, arrête Mais aussi autre chose La Fin de l'amour Meinhof/Angot Normalement
  • ''La Place du singe''

Films