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Virginie Despentes (French: [viʁ.ʒi.ni de.pɑ̃t]; born 13 June 1969) is a French writer, novelist, and filmmaker. She is known for her work exploring gender, sexuality, and people who live in poverty or other marginalised conditions.
May 19, 2021 · The Stinging Provocations of Virginie Despentes In her Vernon Subutex novels, which were huge best-sellers in France, one feels the collapse of a national myth—and a crippling disorientation in...
May 10, 2021 · French Writer Virginie Despentes on Fame, Feminism, the Joy of Punk Rock—And the Final Volume of Her Best-Selling Trilogy
Aug 8, 2015 · Virginie Despentes on Killing Rapists. Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-BROADLY Virginie Despentes is a radical feminist writer and filmmaker whose work has inspired hatred and...
Jun 23, 2020 · PARIS — Nearly three decades into her career, the feminist French author and filmmaker Virginie Despentes still has a way of riling people up — right across the political spectrum.
Virginie Despentes, nom de plume de Virginie Daget, née le 13 juin 1969 à Nancy [1], est une écrivaine et réalisatrice française, occasionnellement traductrice et parolière. Elle a été révélée par son roman Baise-moi (1994), dont elle a ensuite coréalisé l'adaptation cinématographique (2000).
Oct 12, 2021 · In 2006, Virginie Despentes published a manifesto called King Kong Theory, an origin story that begins with her rape and the shame it caused. She writes: “The moment you call your rape a...
Sep 5, 2018 · Despentes is a legend in France, especially among young women. Much of this reputation rests on her first novel, Baise-moi (1994), a taboo-shattering book about a pair of young women, Nadine and Manu, who go on a killing spree across France. One has worked as a prostitute, the other as a porn actress; in between murders, they have graphically ...
Jun 30, 2016 · Virginie Despentes’s feminist pulp, gory and marked by sexual violence, looks to the lives of women unwilling to make nice or play along.
Dec 2, 2019 · Despentes has managed to capture a perfect blend of the literary and crime, and in this case, the “crime” might in fact be the life itself. I spoke to Despentes about the titular character at the center of the trilogy, social media’s influence, the future of music, and more.
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