Emma Becker
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Emma Becker (born 14 December 1988 in Île-de-France as Emma Durand) is a French writer living in Paris. Her pen name Becker is derived from Pannebecker, the family name of her German grandmother.[1]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Becker grew up in a middle-class family in Île-de-France (greater Paris region). Her father was an entrepreneur and her mother a psychologist. She attended a Catholic high school (lycée Montalembert), which she completed with the Baccalauréat (high school diploma) in 2006. Afterwards she studied literature at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University. In 2011 she published her first book, an erotic novel with the title Mr. It describes the relationship of young female student and an older married man based on her own experiences. After a failed relationship Becker left Paris to move to Berlin, where one of her aunts lived. There she worked on her second book and gave birth to a son. After the publication of her second book, she became interested in writing about prostitution and in an effort to immerse herself into that world she worked for two years as a prostitute in two local brothels. She described her experiences later in the autofiction novel La Maison, which was published in 2019.[1][2] The novel received nominations for the Prix Renaudot and the Prix de Flore and won the Prix du Roman des étudiants France Culture–Télérama.[3] In 2022 it was adapted into a movie with Ana Girardot playing the main character.
Becker relocated to the south of France in 2021, got married and gave birth to a second son.
Books
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- English edition: Monsieur. Arcade Publishing, 2012, translated by Maxim Jakubowski
- Alice. Éditions Denoël, 2015, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- La Maison. Éditions Flammarion, 2019, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- L’inconduite. Éditions Albin Michel, 2022, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Odile l'été. Julliard editions, 2023 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Le Mal joli. Éditions Albin Michel, 2024
References
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- ^ Biography of Emma Becker at fnac.com (received 2025-09-02)
External links
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- Monsieur: An Erotic Novel - Review in Publishers Weekly
- Life as a prostitute: Author Emma Becker on working in a brothel to research novel. France 24, 14 October 2019 (video, 8:19 mins)
- Emma Becker : "Le sexe est le dernier bastion d'apolitisme dans l'existence". France culture, 15 September 2019
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