Sigolène Vinson (born 1974) is a former lawyer and actress who became a novelist and journalist. She is the legal correspondent of ''

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'', where she survived the

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on 7 January 2015.Sophie Adriansen
« Sigolène Vinson – Écrivain »
''encore-magazine.fr'', 11 October 2014

Life

Vinson was born at

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. Her family moved shortly afterwards to

Clamart Clamart () is a commune in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. The town is divided into two parts, separated by a forest: ''bas Clamart'', the historical centre, and ''petit Clamart'' with urban ...

and then

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near Paris, before leaving for

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because of her father's job in 1981. She returned to France in 1987. She studied for the stage but later retrained at the Sorbonne to become a lawyer. In 2007 she gave up the law to become a writer. In the same year she was awarded jointly with Philippe Kleinmann the

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for their crime novel ''Bistouri Blues'', the first appearance of the commissaire Cush Dibbeth, who reappeared in ''Substance'' (2015). In 2011 they co-wrote an historical crime novel, ''Double Hélice''. In the same year Vinson's solo novel ''J'ai déserté le pays de l’enfance'' was also published. Since September 2012 she has written a legal column for ''

''. During the

on 7 January 2015 her life was spared by

Saïd Kouachi On 7 January 2015, at about 11:30 a.m. in Paris, France, the employees of the French satirical weekly magazine ''Charlie Hebdo'' were targeted in a terrorist shooting attack by two French-born Algerian Muslim brothers, and . Armed with ...

, because she was a woman, on condition that she read the

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.''N’aie pas peur. Calme-toi. Je ne te tuerai pas. Tu es une femme. On ne tue pas les femmes. Mais réfléchis à ce que tu fais. Ce que tu fais est mal. Je t’épargne, et puisque je t’épargne, tu liras le Coran.'' Soren Seelow
« "C'est Charlie, venez vite, ils sont tous morts" »
''

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'', 13 January 2015.

Chérif Kouachi On 7 January 2015, at about 11:30 a.m. in Paris, France, the employees of the French satirical weekly magazine ''Charlie Hebdo'' were targeted in a terrorist shooting attack by two French-born Algerian Muslim brothers, and . Armed with ...

however killed another female journalist, Elsa Cayat.

Works

Novels

* ''J'ai déserté le pays de l'enfance'', Paris, Plon, 2011 * ''Le Caillou'', Paris, Le Tripode, 2015 * ''Courir après les ombres'', Paris, Plon, 2015 * ''Les Jouisseurs'', Paris, Éditions de l'Observatoire, 2017 * ''Maritima'', Paris, Éditions de l'Observatoire, 2019 * ''La Canine de George'', Paris, Éditions de l'Observatoire, 2021

In collaboration with Philippe Kleinmann

* ''Bistouri Blues'', Paris, Éditions du Masque, ''Collection Le Masque'' No 2507, 2007 ; reissued, Paris, Éditions du Masque, ''Collection Masque poche'' No 57, 2015 * ''Double Hélice'', Paris, Éditions du Masque, 2011 * ''Substance'', Paris, Éditions du Masque, 2015

Contributions to works of multiple authorship

* ''Les Aventures du Concierge Masqué - L'Exquise Nouvelle saison 3'', L'exquise Édition, 2013 * ''Enfant, je me souviens,'' UNICEF/Livre de poche, 2016

Notes and references

External links

Babelio: biography and bibliography
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