Sagan, Paris 1954

By Anne Berest

Before Franoise Sagan the literary icon there was Franoise Quoirez, an eighteen-year-old Parisian girl, who wrote a novel and needed a publisher for it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gallic Books
• Release date: Jun 15, 2015
• ISBN: 9781910477151

Anne Berest

Anne Berest’s first novel to appear in English, The Postcard (Europa, 2023), was a national indie bestseller, a Library Journal, NPR, and TIME Best Book of the Year, a Vogue Most Anticipated Book of the Year, and a finalist for the Goncourt Prize in France. It was described as “stunning” by Leslie Camhi in The New Yorker, as a “powerful literary work” by Julie Orringer in The New York Times Book Review, and as “intimate, profound, essential” in the pages of ELLE magazine. With her sister, Claire Berest, she is also the author of Gabriële (Europa, 2025), a critically acclaimed, best-selling “true novel” based on the life of her great-grandmother, Gabriële Buffet-Picabia, wife of Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp’s lover and muse, a leader of the French Resistance, and an art critic of considerable note. Berest lives in Paris with her family.

Reviews for Sagan, Paris 1954

[Alphonse-Louis Vinh · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Very absorbing book written by a young French writer who uses autography, fiction, and biography at the life celebrated French novelists Françoise Sagan, who was to launch her famous literary career at 18 years of age. Weaving the past with the present, Anne Berest makes you feel as you really know Françoise Sagan.