de Vigan, Delphine
Entry updated 2 September 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1966- ) French author, active from around 2000, who has also published as by Lou Delvig. D'après une histoire vrai ["Based on a True Story"] (2015), filmed as Based on a True Story (2017) directed by Roman Polanski, hints at Identity Exchange in its depicting of the gradual transference of characteristics between a writer and the woman she has befriended (see also Doppelganger). De Vigan is also of sf interest for Les enfants sont rois (2023; trans Alison Anderson as Kids Run the Show 2024), which follows into the Near Future the intersections of online bondage between an obsessional mother and her child. [JC]
Delphine de Vigan
born Boulogne-Billancourt, France: 1 March 1966
works (selected)
- D'après une histoire vrai ["Based on a True Story"] (Paris: Hachette/J C Lattès, 2015) [binding unknown/]
- Les enfants sont rois (Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2023) [binding unknown/]
- Kids Run the Show (London: Europa Editions, 2024) [trans by Alison Anderson of the above: hb/Ginevra Rapisardi]
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