Sylvie Caster (born 1952 in Arcachon ,

Gironde Gironde ( US usually, , ; oc, Gironda, ) is the largest department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of Southwestern France. Named after the Gironde estuary, a major waterway, its prefecture is Bordeaux. In 2019, it had a population of 1,62 ...

) 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'' (; meaning ''Charlie Weekly'') is a French satirical weekly magazine, featuring cartoons, reports, polemics, and jokes. Stridently non-conformist in tone, the publication has been described as Anti-racism, anti-racist, sceptica ...

'' from 1976 to 1981 at the time of Cavanna, Wolinski and Reiser, then in '' Le Canard enchaîné''. 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 . 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, *1982: ''La France fout la camp, recueil de chroniques parues dans Charlie Hebdo'', éd. Trévise-BFB *1985
''Nel est mort''
, Le Livre de Poche, *1991: ''Bel-Air'', Éditions Grasset, , Prix populiste et Prix des bouquinistes *1994
''La bombe humaine''
Arléa, *1995: ''La Petite Sibérie'', Grasset, *2002: ''Dormir'', , ,

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2003.
in ''

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

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-XXI, *2015
''L'homme océan''
Éditions du Seuil, series "Raconter la vie",

References

External links

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

Libération ''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. Initially positioned on the far-left of France's ...

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