{{Short description|French writer and actress}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2024}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox writer/doc --> | name = Anne Berest | image = Anne Berest à la foire du livre 2010 de Brive la Gaillarde.JPG | caption = Anne Berest at the Brive-la-Gaillarde book fair in 2010 | pseudonym = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1979|9|15|df=y}} | birth_place = Paris, France | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Writer, actress | relatives = Claire Berest (sister)<br />Francis Picabia (great-grandfather)<br />Gabrièle Buffet-Picabia (great-grandmother)<br />Lelia Picabia (mother) | awards = Grand prix de l'héroïne Madame Figaro de la biographie (2018) }}
'''Anne Berest''' (born 15 September 1979) is a French writer and actress.
== Biography == In 2008 she adapted Patrick Modiano's short autobiography ''Un Pedigree'' for the theatre with Edouard Baer.<ref>{{cite news |last=Silber |first=Martine |date=2008-05-05 |title=La vie antérieure de Modiano dans la voix d'Edouard Baer |trans-title=The previous life of Modiano in the voice of Edouard Baer |language=French |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2008/05/05/theatre-la-vie-anterieure-de-modiano-dans-la-voix-d-edouard-baer_1041317_3246.html |work=Le Monde |location=Paris |access-date=2021-10-08}}</ref> {{interlanguage link|Denis Westhoff|fr}}, son of Françoise Sagan asked Berest to write about the creation of his mother's novel, Bonjour Tristesse.<ref>{{cite news |last=Leyris |first=Raphaëlle|date=2014-05-10 |title=Sagan nostalgie |trans-title=Sagan nostalgia |language=French |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2014/05/21/sagan-nostalgie_4423063_3260.html |work=Le Monde |location=Paris |access-date=2021-10-08}}</ref> The resulting book, ''Sagan 1954'', was well received by critics: Berest "searched for and found les mot justes".<ref>{{cite news |last=Delorme |first=Marie-Laure|date=2014-05-14 |title=Anne Berest et Françoise Sagan, une amitié paradoxale |trans-title=Anne Berest and Françoise Sagan, a paradoxical friendship |language=French |url=https://www.lejdd.fr/Culture/Livres/Anne-Berest-et-Francoise-Sagan-une-amitie-paradoxale-664618 |work=Le Journal du Dimanche |location=Paris |access-date=2021-10-08}}</ref>
In 2017, with her sister Claire Berest, she wrote a biography of her great-grandmother Gabrièle Buffet-Picabia. With ''Gabriële'', the Berest sisters succeeded in bringing attention to their great-grandmother's often overlooked life and influence in the art world, specifically within the Dada movement.<ref>{{cite news |last=Koutchoumoff|first=Lisbeth|date=2017-09-01 |title="Que voulez-vous, ma femme a un cerveau érotique..." |trans-title="What do you want, my wife has an erotic brain" |language=French |url=https://www.letemps.ch/culture/voulezvous-femme-un-cerveau-erotique |work=Le Temps |location=Lausanne|access-date=2021-10-08}}</ref>
Her novel ''La Carte Postale'' (''The Postcard''), was published in 2021 in French <ref>{{Cite web |title=La carte postale (Grand format - Broché 2021), de Anne Berest {{!}} Grasset |url=https://www.grasset.fr/livre/la-carte-postale-9782246820499/ |access-date=2024-07-30 |website=www.grasset.fr |language=fr}}</ref> and translated into English in 2023 by Tina Kover. <ref>{{Cite web |title=The Postcard - Anne Berest |url=http://www.europaeditions.com.cricchetto.frequenze.it/book/9781609458386/the-postcard |access-date=2024-07-30 |website=Europa Editions |language=en}}</ref> The autobiographical novel is entirely based on real events that happened throughout Berest's life. <ref>{{Cite news |last=Simon |first=Scott |date=May 13, 2023 |title=Anne Berest's novel traces her family history and leads back to the Holocaust |url=https://www.npr.org/2023/05/13/1176001764/anne-berests-novel-traces-her-family-history-and-leads-back-to-the-holocaust |access-date=July 29, 2024 |work=National Public Radio |type=Radio Interview}}</ref> It tells the stories of Anne Berest's relatives' experience during World War Two by piecing together the research that Anne and her mother did to learn more about where they came from. <ref>{{Cite news |last=Orringer |first=Julie |date=2023-05-16 |title=An Autobiographical Novel Reclaims a Jewish History in Occupied France |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/books/review/anne-berest-the-postcard.html |access-date=2024-07-30 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In the novel, Anne becomes determined to figure out who sent her family a mysterious postcard in 2003 with the names of their family members who died in Auschwitz written on the back. <ref>{{Cite news |last=Seiffert |first=Rachel |date=2023-10-04 |title=The Postcard by Anne Berest review – an autofictional tale of family survival |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/oct/04/the-postcard-by-anne-berest-review-an-autofictional-tale-of-family-survival |access-date=2024-07-30 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> In 2021 ''La Carte Postale'' made the final selection for the Prix Goncourt<ref>{{cite news |date=2021-10-05 |title=Prix Goncourt 2021 : plus que 9 romans en lice et de nouvelles règles|trans-title=Prix Goncourt 2021: only 9 novels in contention and some new rules |language=French |url=https://www.nouvelobs.com/prix-litteraires/20211005.OBS49490/prix-goncourt-2021-plus-que-9-romans-en-lice-et-de-nouvelles-regles.html |work=L'Obs |location=Paris|access-date=2021-10-08}}</ref> as well as the Prix Renaudot.<ref>{{cite news |date=2021-10-07 |title=Prix Renaudot 2021 : la 2e sélection est tombée |trans-title=Prix Renaudot 2021: the second selection has been announced|language=French |url=https://www.nouvelobs.com/prix-litteraires/20211007.OBS49580/prix-renaudot-2021-la-2e-selection-est-tombee.html|work=L'Obs|location=Paris|access-date=2021-10-08}}</ref>
== Books == * ''La Fille de son père'', éditions du Seuil, 2010, {{ISBN|978-2-02-102783-9}} * ''Les Patriarches'', éditions Grasset, 2012 {{ISBN|978-2-246-80084-2}} * ''Sagan 1954'', éditions Stock, 2014, {{ISBN|978-2-234-07740-9}} * ''How to be Parisian wherever you are'' (with Audrey Diwan, Caroline de Maigret and Anne Berest, Doubleday, 2014, {{ISBN|978-0-09-195809-1}} * ''Recherche femme parfaite'', éditions Grasset, 2015, {{ISBN|978-2-246-85244-5}} * ''Gabriële'' (with Claire Berest), éditions Stock, 2017 {{ISBN|978-2-234-08618-0}} * ''La Visite'', suivi de ''Les Filles de nos filles'', Actes Sud, 2020, {{ISBN|978-2-330-13154-8}} * ''La Carte postale'', éditions Grasset, 2021 {{ISBN|9782246820505}}; translated into English in 2023 by Tina Kover, ''The Postcard'' * ''Finistère'', Éditions Albin Michel, 2025, {{ISBN|9782226487186}}
== Screenwriter == * Que d'Amour! (Just Love) by Marivaux, telefilm directed by Valérie Donzelli shown on Arte in 2014 - co-writer * Paris Etc., series directed by Zabou Breitman shown on Canal+ in 2017 - co-writer * Mytho, directed by Fabrice Gobert, released on Netflix in 2019 - co-writer (and co-creator) * ''Valiant Hearts'' (2021), film directed by Mona Achache
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== External links == * {{IMDb name | name=Anne Berest|id=nm4664167}}
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