Virginie Despentes is a writer and filmmaker, and former maid, sex worker, and freelance rock journalist. Her first novel, Baise-Moi, a controversial story of rape and revenge, was published in 1992 and adapted for film in 2000. Upon release it became the first film to be banned in France for twenty-eight years. She is the author of over fifteen further works, including Apocalypse Baby (2010) and Bye Bye Blondie (2004), and the autobiographical essay, King Kong Theory (2006). The first title in her Vernon Subutex trilogy was first published by Grasset in French in 2013, with the second and third titles following in 2015 and 2017. It is published in English by MacLehose Press in a translation by Frank Wynne, and shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize.
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Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex 1, translated by Frank Wynne (MacLehose Press, June 2017) |