WRITER

Marie Darrieussecq

1969 - Today

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Marie Darrieussecq (French pronunciation: [maʁi daʁjøsɛk]; born 3 January 1969, Bayonne) is a French writer. She is also a translator, and has practised as a psychoanalyst. Her books explore the unspoken and abandoned territories in literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marie Darrieussecq has received more than 91,552 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Marie Darrieussecq is the 6,659th most popular writer (down from 6,090th in 2019), the 5,461st most popular biography from France (down from 5,038th in 2019) and the 663rd most popular French Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 92k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 39.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Pig Tales
Fiction, Metamorphosis, Sex oriented businesses
A woman working in a beauty parlor chronicles her descent into gluttony and lust. In one word, she is becoming a pig and she even grows a corkscrew tail. The woman's transformation reflects that of her country, raked by revolution, epidemics and famine. Part fantasy, part satire on France. A debut in fiction.
1997
Bref séjour chez les vivants
2001
White
French fiction, Electric power failures, Fiction
2003
Schweinerei
1997
Men
Fiction, general, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Man-woman relationships
2016
Being here is everything
Women painters, Biography, Painting, german
"First published in France in 2016, Being Here Is So Much traces the short, obscure, and prolific life of the German expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907). In a brief career, cut short by her death from an embolism at the age of thirty-one, shortly after she gave birth to a child, Modersohn-Becker trained in Germany, traveled often to Paris, developed close friendships with the sculptor Clara Westhoff and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and became one of her generation's preeminent artists, helping introduce modernity to the twentieth century alongside such other painters as Picasso and Matisse. Marie Darrieussecq's triumphant and illuminating biography at once revives Modersohn-Becker's reputation as a significant figure in modernism and sheds light on the extreme difficulty women have faced in attaining recognition and establishing artistic careers"--Provided by publisher.
2017

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marie Darrieussecq ranks 6,659 out of 7,302. Before her are Rick Falkvinge, Deborah Feldman, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Kim Thúy, Kristina Ohlsson, and George Clayton Johnson. After her are Greil Marcus, Édouard Louis, Joel Surnow, Thomas Brussig, Eugene Vodolazkin, and Kevin Poulsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1969, Marie Darrieussecq ranks 569. Before her are John Tobias, Ivana, Tate Taylor, Mark Millar, Asier Garitano, and Fernanda Ribeiro. After her are Timothy Omundson, Myriam Bédard, Trine Skei Grande, DJ Sammy, Diane Farr, and Vanessa Beecroft.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marie Darrieussecq ranks 5,461 out of 6,770. Before her are Fabio Quartararo (1999), Youssouf Fofana (1999), Sonia Bompastor (1980), Achille Guenée (1809), Eugénie Le Sommer (1989), and Agnès Buzyn (1962). After her are Édouard Louis (1992), Cédric Carrasso (1981), Jonathan Biabiany (1988), Patrice Garande (1960), Armand de Las Cuevas (1968), and Yannick Jadot (1967).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Marie Darrieussecq ranks 663. Before her are Alberto Angela (1962), Véronique Tadjo (1955), Maylis de Kerangal (1967), David Diop (1966), Didier Van Cauwelaert (1960), and Patrick Besson (1956). After her are Édouard Louis (1992), Ann Scott (1965), Éliette Abécassis (1969), Alexandre Jardin (1965), Jérôme Ferrari (1968), and Maurice G. Dantec (1959).

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