Sylvie Caster (born 1952 in

Arcachon Arcachon (; ) is a commune in the southwestern French department of Gironde. It is a popular seaside resort on the Atlantic coast southwest of Bordeaux, in the Landes forest. It has a sandy beach and a mild climate said to be favourable for p ...

Gironde Gironde ( , US usually , ; , ) is the largest department in the southwestern French region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Named after the Gironde estuary, a major waterway, its prefecture is Bordeaux. In 2019, it had a population of 1,623,749.

) is a French journalist and writer.

Biography

After studying journalism and political science in Bordeaux, Sylvie Caster published numerous columns, notably in ''

Charlie Hebdo ''Charlie Hebdo'' (; ) is a French satirical weekly magazine, featuring cartoons, reports, polemics, and jokes. The publication has been described as anti-racist, sceptical, secular, libertarian, and within the tradition of left-wing radicalism ...

'' from 1976 to 1981 at the time of Cavanna, Wolinski and Reiser, then in ''

Le Canard enchaîné (; English: "The Chained Duck" or "The Chained Paper", as is French slang meaning "newspaper") is a satirical weekly newspaper in France. Its headquarters is in Paris. Founded in 1915 during World War I, it features investigative journalism ...

''. She entered ''Le Canard'' in 1983 where she hosted a column entitled "Calamity Caster", where she took an energetic position in a whole series of social debates. She was the first woman writer of ''Le Canard enchaîné'' since 1920. The arrival of this strong personality did not go unnoticed to the newspaper which, by tradition, is accompanied in the texts and also the drawings, with a smiling but real

misogyny Misogyny () is hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against Woman, women or girls. It is a form of sexism that can keep women at a lower social status than Man, men, thus maintaining the social roles of patriarchy. Misogyny has been wide ...

. She received the Mumm Prize in 1994. Since its creation in 2008, she regularly collaborates with the magazine '' XXI'', in which she draws a unique portrait of France today. She is the author, among others, of five novels including ''Les Chênes verts'' and ''Dormir''.

Works

*1980: ''Les Chênes verts'',

Le Livre de Poche Le Livre de Poche (literally "The Pocket Book") is the name of a collection of publications which first appeared on 9 February 1953 under the leadership of and published by the , a subsidiary of Hachette. In terms of its influence on the mains ...

, *1982: ''La France fout la camp, recueil de chroniques parues dans Charlie Hebdo'', éd. Trévise-BFB *1985
''Nel est mort''
,

, *1991: ''Bel-Air'',

Éditions Grasset Éditions Grasset () is a French publishing house founded in 1907 by (1881–1955). Grasset publishes French and foreign literature, essays, novels and children's books, among others. Bernard Grasset sold ownership of the company to Hachette ...

, , Prix populiste et Prix des bouquinistes *1994
''La bombe humaine''

Arléa Arléa is a French publishing house created in 1986. Arléa publishes thirty new titles each year, including pocket ones. His catalog contains more than a thousand titles: the great classics of Antiquity (whether Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Sanskrit or ...

, *1995: ''La Petite Sibérie'', Grasset, *2002: ''Dormir'', , , Prix Jean-Freustié 2003.
in ''

Nouvel Observateur (), previously known as (2014–2024), (1964–2014), (1954–1964), (1953–1954), and (1950–1953), is a weekly French news magazine. Based in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, ' is one of the three most prominent French news magazines a ...

'' 10 March 2003. *2010: ''Ici-bas'', coédition

Les Arènes ''Les Arènes'' is a painting by Vincent van Gogh executed in Arles, in November or December 1888, during the period of time when Paul Gauguin was living with him in The Yellow House. The bullfight season in Arles that year started on Easter Su ...

-XXI, *2015
''L'homme océan''

Éditions du Seuil Éditions du Seuil (), also known as Le Seuil, is a French publishing house established in 1935 by Catholic intellectual Jean Plaquevent (1901–1965), and currently owned by La Martinière Groupe. It owes its name to this goal "The ''seuil'' (th ...

, series "Raconter la vie",

References

External links

Sylvie Caster
on Babelio
Sylvie Caster: ''Siné, c’est un modèle de môme éternel''
on ''

Libération (), popularly known as ''Libé'' (), is a daily newspaper in France, founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968 in France, May 1968. Initially positioned on the far left of Fr ...

'' (5 May 2016)
Sylvie Caster
on Itinéraires
''Un mois chez Charlie-Hebdo''
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