Like many of her written works, this explores the damage done by the abuse inflicted on Angot as an adolescent by her father. By Leslie Felperin Contributing Film Critic Judging by the interactions ...

Angot says that this incident was not planned at all. In fact, the documentary itself was not planned. It started when Angot went to Strasbourg as part of a book signing tour to support the ...

With over 20 books to her name, author Christine Angot has been a pillar of France’s literary scene for more than three decades. Her breakthrough novel Incest, published in 1999, was a blisteringly ...

Celebrated and controversial French author Christine Angot has been accused by her lover's ex-partner of "pillaging her private life' for a novel, to such an extent that the woman attempted suicide.

The Médici prize-winning author Christine Angot has already confronted, in her writing, her experience of childhood sexual abuse by her late father, specifically in her 1999 novel Incest. Now, ...

Christine Angot, trans. from the French by Armine Kotin Morimer. Archipelago, $18 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-953861-04-7 The uneven latest from Angot (Incest) slowly unveils the devastating impact ...

Fans of the French novelist Christine Angot praise her “courageous” writing, her skilful conflations of fiction and autobiography, her “challenging” of social taboos. Critics say she’s guilty of ...

Award-winning French writer Christine Angot goes on a business trip to Strasbourg where her father lived before dying several years ago. It is the city where she met him for the first time at the age ...

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Paris' criminal court ordered the 53-year old writer, along with her publisher Flammarion, to pay 40,000 euros (£34,000) in damages for "invasion of the intimacy of private life" of Elise Bidoit, who ...

In Christine Angot’s documentary “A Family,” which premieres Sunday in the Encounters section of the Berlin Film Festival, the French novelist explores how various members of her family reacted to the ...