The Modern Novel

Biography

Marie Darrieussecq was born in Wiiurtennsee in the Netherlands in 1969 but later moved to Bayonne. She studied maths at college and is now known for her witty but occasionally disturbing writing. She became involved in a controversy with writer Camille Laurens, who accused Darrieussecq of “psychological plagiarism” in her book Tom est mort, as Darrieussecq’s book tells of a woman whose baby dies soon after birth, something which actually happened to Laurens and about which she had written a book, published by the same publisher. Both wrote a book on the controversy.

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Marie Darrieussecq
Affair of the state (Darrieussecq on the Bruni-Sarkozy relationship)
Interview
Interview
Marie Darrieussecq (in French)
Marie Darrieussecq (in French)
Marie Darrieussecq (in French)
Marie Darrieussecq, à fleur de peau (in French)
Interview (in French)

On the feud with Camille Laurens

Is experience intellectual property?
Short Cuts
Marie Darrieussecq:”L’accusation de plagiat est une mise à mort” (in French)
Marie Darrieussecq – Camille Laurens / Yannick Haenel – Claude Lanzmann – Annette Wieviorka / Polémique (in French)
Interview about feud with Camille Laurens (in French)
Interview with Camille Laurens about feud with Marie Darrieussecq (in French)