Vanessa Duriès, also known as Katia Lamara (1972 – 13 December 1993), was a French novelist.

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She was the author of the French

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novel '' Le lien'' (translated into English as '' The Ties that Bind'') allegedly based on her own experience as a BDSM slave. She created quite a stir in France at the time of the release of the novel, due to her youth and beauty, and appeared on national television, in particular in the show of

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. She also appeared in a

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and an interview of the May 1993 issue of the French edition of ''

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'' magazine. Duriès died in a car crash on 13 December 1993 in the South of France at age 21. Because of her early death, she has achieved a cult status for some

communities. In 2007, five chapters of her second novel '' L'Étudiante'', left unfinished due to her death, were published in France. Three other people also died in the crash. The 2007 edition published in Paris by

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-- "L'Étudiante suivi de Le Lien", Éditions Blanche, — which includes an avant-propos by Duriès' editor Franck Spengler and a preface by Florence Dugas, is dedicated: "À la mémoire de Vanessa Duriès, Nathalie Perreau, Jean-Pierre Imbrohoris et leur fils décédés tragiquement le 13 décembre 1993". Spengler avows he was editor to Nathalie Perreau, also, and a friend of Jean-Pierre Imbrohoris. Published in this edition is a short letter written by Duriès to Franck Spengler, inserted between chapters two and three of "L'Étudiante".

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