Maryse Wolinski
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Maryse Wolinski (born in Algiers on 3 May 1943) is a French writer and journalist. She was the wife of cartoonist Georges Wolinski who died on 7 January 2015 during the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris.
Born in Algiers, she spent her childhood in Paris and South East and at age 20 studied journalism. Her debut job was as a society writer in Sud-Ouest and later on Le Journal du Dimanche where she met her future husband cartoonist Georges Wolinski. They had three children. She also worked as a freelancer in a number of publications like F Magazine, Elle, du Généraliste (specialized medical magazine), and wrote frequently in Monde-Dimanche, a supplement of Monde quotidien.
She wrote Une Histoire des femmes and her book La Divine Sieste de papa was adapted for television by director Alain Nahum. She also wrote songs sung by Carlos, Bernadette Lafont and Sarah Mesguish, broadcast during a Christmas programme on France 3 in 1986. She later on included them in a special publication that won best award for youth readers. She subsequently published other books destined to younger audiences and continued writing song lyrics that were sung by Catherine Bériane and Canadian Diane Tell.
She wrote a number of novels, like Au Diable Vauvert, Le Maître d’amour and La femme qui aimait les hommes, a best seller. She also published pocketbook novels Graines de Femmes, La Tragédie du Bonheur and La Chambre d’amour and a number of scenarios for television series most notably on TF1 called Protection rapprochée.
Novels
- Au Diable vauvert, Flammarion, 1988
- Le Maître d'amour, Flammarion, 1992
- Graines de femme, Albin Michel, 1996
- La Femme qui aimait les hommes, 1998 Albin Michel
- La Tragédie du bonheur, 1998 Albin Michel
- La Chambre d'amour, Albin Michel, 1998
- La Mère qui voulait être femme, Seuil, 2008
- La Sibylline, Seuil, 2010
- La Passion d'Edith S., Seuil, 2014
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