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of French

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. In 2016, Maier was named as one of the

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Biography

Maier was born on 7 December 1963 in

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, Switzerland. She attended National Foundation of Political Sciences, studying economics and international relations, later earning a doctorate in

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. The author of ''

'' 'Hello Laziness'' Maier is a

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who has been compared to

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. She became employed by

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as an economist 1992. In 2004, she wrote ''Bonjour paresse'', which reached the number one ranking on

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's French-language bestseller list. In 2016, she was chosen as one of BBC's 100 Women. Maier is

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and is the mother of two children, a son and a daughter.

Selected works

* 2004, Hello laziness! : why hard work doesn't pay, non-fiction, Orion (GB) ; 2005, Bonjour Laziness, Pantheon (USA), 2007 ; * 2009, No kids, 40 reasons not to have children, non-fiction, Mcclelland & Steward (Canada) ; * 2013, Freud, an illustrated biography (scenario), Nobrow (GB) ; * 2014, Marx, an illustrated biography (scenario), Nobrow (GB) ; * 2016, Einstein, an illustrated biography (scenario), Nobrow (GB) * 2017, Marx, Freud, Einstein, Heroes of the mind, Nobrow (GB) * 2021, The Conquest of the red man (novel), Wrecking Ball Press (GB).

References

External links

*
Corinne Maier
at Wikiquote (in French)
Official website
(in French) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Maier, Corinne 1963 births 21st-century French non-fiction writers 21st-century French women writers BBC 100 Women French economists French people of Swiss-Jewish descent French satirists French women economists Jewish women writers Living people Writers from Geneva Sciences Po alumni Swiss expatriates in France Swiss Jews Women satirists