Anne Berest
Novelist, Screenwriter, ActressAbout
Anne Berest is the author of “The Postcard,” her sixth novel, translated in over 20 countries and winner of the first-ever U.S. Goncourt Prize. This book followed “Gabriële,” co-written with her sister Claire and published in 2018, whose heroine is Gabriële Buffet-Picabia, wife of the painter Francis Picabia and companion of the artist Marcel Duchamp. In this biography, the Berest sisters rehabilitate the intellectual role in art history of their great-grandmother Gabriële Buffet-Picabia, highlighting her contribution to the discourse around abstraction in pictorial form. Hailed by critics and art historians, the book was also translated in numerous countries. Anne Berest has also written two plays, including “The Visit,” a monologue performed at the Théâtre du Rond-Point, created in 2020 and reprised in 2021. As a screenwriter, she co-created, alongside Fabrice Gobert, the series Mythomaniac for the channel Arte, which won numerous awards, notably the 2019 Series Mania Audience Award and the following year’s Best Non-English Language Comedy Series Award at the Banff World Media Festival. Anne Berest also co-wrote Valérie Donzelli’s TV movie Just Love!, broadcast on Arte in 2014, and has appeared in several theatrical feature films including Valérie Donzelli’s Declaration of War (2011), Maïwenn’s DNA (2020) and Rebecca Zlotowski’s Other People’s Children (2022).
