Virginie Despentes

Awards

Won 1 The prize of the BNF Award

The prize of the BNF 1 won

• ★ 2019 The prize of the BNF Won

International Booker Prize 1 nominated

• ◦ 2018 International Booker Prize Nominated Vernon Subutex 1

Prix Littéraire Livres & Musiques de Deauville 1 won

• ★ 2016 Prix Littéraire Livres & Musiques de Deauville Won Vernon Subutex Two

Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction 1 nominated

• ◦ 2016 Lesbian Fiction Nominated Apocalypse Baby

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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 antidote to the new moral order.