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Marie Desplechin
Biography
Marie Desplechin was born in Roubaix in 1959.After school, she worked as a journalist and in a commercial communications department, before becoming writer. She first wrote for young adults and then later for both children/young adults and for adults. Her first work for adults, a collection of stories called Trop sensibles (Taking It to Heart), told the stories of ordinary Parisian women, though her first critical success in adult writing was with her novel, Sans moi (Sans moi), about a divorced women struggling with her job, children and, more particularly, her babysitter, who was a victim of sexual abuse as a girl and is now struggling with drug addiction. She has also written screenplays and a play for the theatre.
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Bibliography
1993 Le Sac à dos d’Alphonse (children’s)
1994 Rude samedi pour Angèle (children’s)
1994 Et Dieu dans tout ça (children’s)
1995 Trop sensibles (Taking It to Heart) (novel)
1995 Tu seras un homme mon neveu (children’s)
1995 Une vague d’amour sur un lac d’amitié (children’s)
1996 Verte (Poor Little Witch Girl)
1997 J’envie ceux qui sont dans ton cœur (children’s)
1997 La Prédiction de Nadia (children’s)
1998 Sans moi (Sans moi) (novel)
2000 Le Coup du kiwi (children’s)
2000 Le Monde de Joseph (children’s)
2002 Ma collection d’amours (children’s)
2003 Dragons (children’s)
2003 Ma vie d’artiste (children’s)
2004 Elie et Sam (children’s)
2004 Entre l’Elfe et la Fée (children’s)
2004 Satin Grenadine (children’s)
2004 Le Sac à main
2004 Dis-moi tout! (children’s)
2004 Le Vrai Caca du volcan, théâtre (children’s)
2004 Beaucoup plus que l’amour
2005 La Vie sauve (with Lydie Violet)
2005 Séraphine (children’s)
2005 La Photo
2005 Parfois je meurs mais jamais très longtemps
2006 Petit Boulot d’été (children’s)
2006 L’Album vert (novel)
2006 Bobigny, centre ville (with Denis Darzacq)
2006 Jamais contente, le journal d’Aurore (children’s)
2007 Toujours fâchée, le journal d’Aurore II (children’s)
2007 Juke box, ouvrage collectif
2007 Pome (children’s)
2008 Les Yeux d’or (children’s)
2008 Fine, Haute, Fuselée (story)
2009 Le Journal d’Aurore 3: rien ne va plus (children’s)
2009 Le roi penché (children’s)
2009 La Galerie de Psyché, Chantilly (The Psyche Gallery)
2010 La Belle Adèle (children’s)
2010 Babyfaces (children’s)
2011 Danbé (with Aya Cissoko)
2011 Saltimbanques (children’s)
2011 Le dur métier de loup
2013 La Classe, Odile Jacob
2013 Le Bon Antoine (children’s)
2013 L’Argent (children’s)
2014 Mauve, L’école des loisirs (children’s)
2014 Les belles danses
2016 Sophie Calle : Ainsi de suite (And So Forth) (children’s)
2016 Sothik (children’s)
2017 L’École de ma vie (children’s)
2017 Verte (children’s)
2018 Ça va faire des histoires (children’s)
2019 Ne change jamais ! (children’s)
2020 La capucine (children’s)