Emma Becker (born 14 December 1988 in
Île-de-France as ''Emma Durand'') is a French writer living in Paris. Her
pen name
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''Becker'' is derived from ''Pannebecker'', the family name of her German grandmother.
Biography
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
The ''baccalauréat'' (; ), often known in France colloquially as the ''bac'', is a French national academic qualification that students can obtain at the completion of their secondary education (at the end of the ''lycée'') by meeting certain ...
(high school diploma) in 2006. Afterwards she studied literature at the
New Sorbonne University (''Sorbonne Nouvelle''). 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 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
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Autofiction combines two mutually inconsistent narrative forms, namely autobiography and fiction. An author may decide to recount their life in the third person, to mod ...
novel ''La Maison'', which was published in 2019.
Becker relocated to the south of France in 2021, got married and gave birth to a second son.
Books
*''Mr.'' Éditions Denoël, 2011,
*: English edition: ''Monsieur''. Arcade Publishing, 2012, translated by Maxim Jakubowski
* ''Alice''. Éditions Denoël, 2015,
* ''
La Maison
LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States.
La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment Music
* La (musical note), or A, the sixth note
* "L.A.", a song by Elliott Smith on ''Figur ...
''. Éditions Flammarion, 2019,
* ''L’inconduite''. Éditions Albin Michel, 2022,
* ''Odile l'été.'' Julliard editions, 2023
References
External links
''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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1988 births
Living people
Female sex workers
Pseudonymous women writers
21st-century French novelists
21st-century French women writers
French women novelists
21st-century pseudonymous writers
French sex workers
Writers from Île-de-France