Claire Parnet (; born 1953) is a French journalist.
She is famous for having co-written with
Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Louis René Deleuze (18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes o ...
(her former teacher) the book ''
Dialogues
Dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog in American English) is a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people, and a literary and theatrical form that depicts such an exchange. As a philosophical or didactic device, it is ch ...
'' (1977). It is a book of exchanges, interspersed with questions, where each author responds by contributing a block of text.
Eleven years later, Parnet renewed this experience by doing a television programme with Deleuze called '' L'Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze'' (The ABCs of Gilles Deleuze) where she asked the philosopher to speak on twenty-five themes presented in alphabetical order.
In the 1980s she was the editor of the journal'' L'Autre''. Later she served as curator of television cultural shows like ''L'Hebdo'' of Michel Field and ''L'Appartement'' (with
Ariel Wizman
Ariel Wizman (born 19 May 1962) is a French musician, DJ, journalist and actor born in Casablanca, Morocco.de Chamberet, Georgia (1999) ''XCiTés: The Flamingo Book of Fresh French Writing'', Flamingo, , p. 209Canal +.
She has also been editorial adviser for literary programs of the French television network
France 5
France 5 () is a French free-to-air public television channel, part of the France Télévisions group. Principally featuring nonfiction and educational programming, the channel's motto is ''la chaîne de la connaissance et du savoir'' (the knowl ...