Catherine Cusset

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Full Name	Catherine Cusset
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	May 16, 1963(1963-05-16)
Age	61
Birthplace	Paris
Country	France
Horoscope	Taurus

Catherine Cusset Biography

Catherine Cusset is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on May 16, 1963 in Paris, France. Catherine Cusset (born in Paris, May 16, 1963) is a best-selling French novelist and the author of Life of David Hockney: A Novel (Other Press, 2019), The Story of Jane (Simon & Schuster, 2001), and 12 other novels published by Éditions Gallimard between 1990 and 2018. Some of her novels (Jouir, La Haine de la famille, Confessions d’un radine, and New York, Journal d’un cycle) are described as autofiction, a French literary movement that is a hybrid of fiction and autobiography. Others are more romantic, but all share some recurring themes: the family, desire, and cultural conflicts between France and America. She stands out from her contemporaries with a direct, incisive, visual form of writing, marked by the influence of Anglo-Saxon novelists.

Her second novel, En toute innocence, published in 1995, was a finalist for the Prix Femina and a great critical success. It recounts, in the first person, the anxieties of a young girl who wants to lose her virginity and who, three times, encounters death in her path. The short book is written in a single breath, with a jerky rhythm.

Jouir, published in 1997, was Cusset’s first autofiction novel. Through a mosaic of scenes related to sexuality, Jouir sketches the portrait, in raw and incisive language, of a woman caught between the strength of her desire and her fear of betraying. The book was badly received by critics when it came out, who either ignored it or attacked it violently.

Based in the United States for the past 30 years (with interludes in Prague, 1997-1999, and London, 2011-2013), she now lives in Manhattan with her American husband and daughter and spends her summers in Brittany, France.

1995: Prix Femina finalist for En toute innocence.

Catherine Cusset Net Worth

Catherine Cusset is one of the richest Writer from France. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Catherine Cusset 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Catherine Cusset entered the French literary scene with La Blouse Roumaine, published in 1990 by Philippe Sollers in his collection L’Infini at Éditions Gallimard. The novel explores the adulterous affair of a French woman married to an American. She thinks she can control her adventure but finds herself caught up in her own game, abandoned at the same time by both her lover and her husband.

Cusset holds two PhD’s: one from Paris Diderot University (Paris VII), where she wrote a dissertation on Marquis de Sade (La raison et la fiction dans L’Histoire de Juliette), and one from Yale University, where she wrote a dissertation on the 18th-century libertine novel (No Tomorrow: The Ethics of Pleasure in the French Enlightenment). She taught 18th-century French literature at Yale University from 1991 to 2002, before turning to writing novels full-time.

À vous, published in 1996, is a novel inspired by the character of Philippe Sollers and his philosophy of pleasure. The narrator, Marie (a recurring name in Cusset’s novels), addresses herself from the United States to her Parisian spiritual mentor whose silence obsesses her, whose contempt she imagines, while seeking the means to finish off with him.

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Amours transversales, published in 2004, returns to the romantic vein of Le problème avec Jane. A narrative built upon four short stories with recurring characters, Amours transversales is about those loves that are not the ones upon which one has based one’s life, but which are no less important: temporary, incidental loves that draw across our lives a transversal line.

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Catherine Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in France. Catherine Cusset celebrates birthday on May 16 of every year.

2008: Prix Goncourt des Lycéens for Un brillant avenir