Françoise Sagan

French writer (1935-2004) · France · Writers · Died at 69

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She published Bonjour Tristesse as a teenager and it made her famous for capturing wealthy, bored characters tangled in romance and disillusion - a tone the French bourgeoisie recognised and couldn't look away from.

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2004Died24 September 20041985Prince Pierre AwardAward1972“No one, but no one, ever behaves "well" in bed unless they love or are loved - two conditions seldom fulfilled.”In their wordsDes bleus à l'âme, as translated by Joanna Kilmartin (1974)Read the whole statement

“The ways of love are all the same, whether infantile, childish, sexual, tender, sadistic, erotic, or whispered.”In their wordsDes bleus à l'âme, as translated by Joanna Kilmartin (1974)Read the whole statement

1960Prix du BrigadierAward1956“I don’t search for exactitude in portraying people. I try to give to imaginary people a kind of veracity. It would bore me to death to put into my novels the people I know.”In their words"Francoise Sagan, The Art of Fiction No. 15", by Blair Fuller & Robert B. Silvers, in The Paris Review (Autumn 1956)Read the whole statement

“Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.”In their words"Francoise Sagan, The Art of Fiction No. 15", by Blair Fuller & Robert B. Silvers, in The Paris Review (Autumn 1956)Read the whole statement

“I never make moral judgments. All I would say is that a person was droll, or gay, or, above all, a bore.”In their words"Francoise Sagan, The Art of Fiction No. 15", by Blair Fuller & Robert B. Silvers, in The Paris Review (Autumn 1956)Read the whole statement

1955Bancarella Selection PrizeAward1954“Love is worth whatever it costs.”In their wordsBonjour Tristesse (Published in 1954)Read the whole statement

Prix des CritiquesAward1935Born21 June 1935

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Françoise Sagan 1954

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Françoise Sagan 1960

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In their own words 10

Françoise Sagan

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No one, but no one, ever behaves "well" in bed unless they love or are loved - two conditions seldom fulfilled.
1972, Des bleus à l'âme, as translated by Joanna Kilmartin (1974), Own words
One must cherish one's effigies, if one can tolerate them, perhaps more lovingly than one cherishes one's intrinsic self." That's the ABC of pride. And of humor.
1972, Des bleus à l'âme, as translated by Joanna Kilmartin (1974), Own words
The ways of love are all the same, whether infantile, childish, sexual, tender, sadistic, erotic, or whispered.
1972, Des bleus à l'âme, as translated by Joanna Kilmartin (1974), Own words

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Awards

Prince Pierre Award1985

Prix du Brigadier1960

Bancarella Selection Prize1955

Prix des Critiques1954

Family

Father Pierre Quoirez

Françoise Sagan

Partners

Child Denis Westhoff

Sibling Jacques Quoirez

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Born Françoise Delphine Quoirez on 21 June 1935, she wrote Bonjour Tristesse in 1954 while still in her teens, and it became her signature work. The novel's cool eye on romantic entanglement among the rich and restless set the template for everything that followed: plays, novels, screenplays, all circling the same territory of wealth and ennui. She kept writing until her death on 24 September 2004, but never escaped the shadow - or the clarity - of that first book.

Country

France

In common with Françoise

Johnny MathisAlso in A Certain Smile (1958)

Juliette GrécoAlso in Bonjour Tristesse (1958)

Hildegard KnefAlso in Bluebeard (1963)

Jean CocteauAlso in Testament of Orpheus (1960)

Anthony PerkinsAlso in Goodbye Again (1961)

Désirée NosbuschAlso in La Femme fardée (1990)

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