Violette Leduc

Violette Leduc

Violette Leduc (7 April 190728 May 1972) was a French author.

She was born in Arras, Pas de Calais, France, the illegitimate daughter of a servant girl, Berthe. In Valenciennes, the young Violette spent most of her childhood suffering from poor self-esteem, exacerbated by her mother's hostility and overprotectiveness. She developed tender friendships with her grandmother Fideline and her maternal aunt Laure.

Her formal education, begun in 1913, was interrupted by World War I. After the war, she went to a boarding school, the Collège de Douai, where she experienced lesbian affairs with a classmate and a music instructor who was fired over the incident. [cite web
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In 1926, Leduc moved to Paris and enrolled in the Lycée Racine. That same year, she failed her baccalaureate exam and began working as a telephone operator and secretary at Plon publishers.

In 1932 she met Maurice Sachs and Simone de Beauvoir, who encouraged her to write. Her first novel "L'Asphyxie" ("In the Prison of Her Skin") was published by Albert Camus for Éditions Gallimard and earned her praise from Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Cocteau and Jean Genet.

Leduc's best-known book, the memoir "La Bâtarde", was published in 1964. It nearly won the Prix Goncourt and quickly became a bestseller. She went on to write eight more books, including "La Folie en tête" ("Mad in Pursuit"), the second part of her literary autobiography.

In 1968 Radley Metzger made a film of Leduc's novel "Thérèse and Isabelle". The film was a commercial feature about adolescent lesbian love, starring Essy Persson and Anna Gael.

Leduc developed breast cancer and died after two operations.

List of works

* "L'Asphyxie", 1945.
* "L'affamee", 1948.
* "Ravages", 1955.
* "La vieille fille et le mort", 1958.
* "Golden Buttons", 1961.
* "La Bâtarde", 1964.
* "Thérèse et Isabelle", 1966.
* "Lady and the Little Fox Fur", 1967.
* "Folie en tête", 1970.
* "Taxi", 1973.
* "Chasse à l'amour", 1972.

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