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, [1] sexuality, [1] and people who live in …

Virginie Despentes was born on 13 June 1969 in Nancy, France. She is a writer and director, known for Baise-moi (2000), Bye Bye Blondie (2011) and Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism (2009).

May 10, 2021 · When it’s a guy, everything is fine—he can do whatever he wants, no? [Despentes laughs, and takes another drag on her cigarette.]

May 27, 2025 · Virginie Despentes is pivoting to theater. Playgoers “really show up, even for demanding or radical works,” she says.

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 …

Despentes has previously worked as a maid, a sex worker and a freelance rock journalist. Her first novel, Baise-Moi, the controversial rape-revenge story, was published in 1992 and adapted for film in …

Apr 16, 2026 · "Bringing together authors as different as Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre, Virginie Despentes, Laurent Binet, or Jean-Paul Enthoven was no easy task, but we managed to unite them," …

Virginie Despentes est une écrivaine et réalisatrice française née le 13 juin 1969 à Nancy. Ses romans abordent des thèmes difficiles avec un style qui lui est propre.

In 2019, Despentes received the Prix de la BnF for her work. Currently, Despentes lives and writes in Paris. If her work was once associated with scandal and received a mixed reception, she is today …

6 days ago · Virginie Despentes is the best-known of the 115 writers who dramatically left Grasset to protest Vincent Bolloré's takeover. She speaks for the first time, exclusively, on Quotidien.