Viviane Forrester

Viviane Forrester

Born: September 29, 1925
Died: April 30, 2013
in Paris, France
Viviane Forrester (29 September 1925, in Paris – 30 April 2013) was an essayist, novelist, journalist and literary critic.

Born Viviane Dreyfus in a French Jewish family, after wartime exile she married Simon Stoloff, with whom she had two sons. After they divorced, she married John Forrester - they separated after some years, but never divorced. She worked for Le Monde, Le Nouvel Observateur and Quinzaine littéraire and was a member of the jury of the Prix Femina. She became famous internationally with her books on Virginia Woolf (Prix Goncourt 2009) and on politics. In L'horreur économique and Une étrange dictature she criticized the globalisation of capitalism. These international bestsellers in particular attacked the free market dogma, and the resulting alienation and misfortunes for the unemployed.

She was also a founding member of ATTAC.

Viviane Forrester died Tuesday 30 April 2013.

She won the Prix Goncourt de la Biographie in 2009 for her biography of Virginia Woolf. She also won the Prix Femina de l'essai in 1983 for her biography of Van Gogh and the Prix Médicis de l'essai in 1996 for "L'horreur économique".She became a member of the jury of the Prix Femina in 1992.

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Movies for Viviane Forrester...

La Dictature de la pensée unique
Title: La Dictature de la pensée unique
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
Title: Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
Released: June 2, 1976
Type: Movie
The full soundtrack to Marguerite Duras' 1975 film India Song, about a French ambassador's wife in 1930s India, is here repurposed with all new cinematography. As we hear all the dialogue of a bygone movie, we travel visually through images of absence and decay, bereft of life. It's the ghost of a film, and a further commentary on colonialism.
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India Song
Title: India Song
Character: Voix Intemporelle (voice)
Released: June 4, 1975
Type: Movie
In 1937 Calcutta, the wife of the French ambassador takes on many lovers.
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Title: Apostrophes
Character: Self
Released: January 10, 1975
Type: TV
Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.