Virginie Despentes
Known For: Writing
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: June 13, 1969 (55 years old)
Place of Birth: Nancy, France
Virginie Despentes is a French writer, novelist, and filmmaker. Her work is an inventory of youth marginalization; it participates to the sexual revolution lived by Generation X and to the acclimation of pornography in public spaces through new communication techniques. With a transgressive exploration of obscenity's limits, as a novelist or a film-maker she proposes social critique and an antidote to the new moral order.