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Virginie Despentes
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Nancy, France
Virginie Despentes is a French writer, novelist, and filmmaker. Her work is an inventory of youth marginalization; it participates to the sexual revolution lived by Generation X and to the acclimation of pornography in public spaces through new communication techniques. With a transgressive exploration of obscenity's limits, as a novelist or a film-maker she proposes social critique and an…
Known for
- No Mercy — Self2026
- Les Scandaleuses — Self2024
- Orlando, My Political Biography2023
- Drag Race France — Self - Guest Judge2022
- Quotidien — Self - Guest2016
- La Grande Librairie — Self2008
- Chiennes, prenez garde !1999
- Daniel Darc MCM 2004 — elle même
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1969-06-13 ) 13 June 1969 (age 56) , Nancy , France
- Occupation
- Novelist, filmmaker
- Language
- French
- Years active
- 1993–
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Nancy
- Occupation
- director
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Field of work
- film direction
- Image
- Virginie Despentes 2012.jpg
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- Commons category
- Virginie Despentes
- date of birth
- 1969-06-13
- unmarried partner
- Paul B. Preciado
- writing language
- French
- start of work period
- 1993-00-00
- member of
- Collectif 50/50
- sexual orientation
- lesbianism
- pseudonym
- Virginie Despentes
- nominated for
- International Booker Prize
- birth name
- Virginie Daget
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Work
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