Celebrated and controversial French author Christine Angot has been accused by her lover's ex-partner of "pillaging her private life' for a novel, to such an extent that the woman attempted suicide.

In Christine Angot’s documentary “A Family,” which premieres Sunday in the Encounters section of the Berlin Film Festival, the French novelist explores how various members of her family reacted to the ...

With over 20 books to her name, author Christine Angot has been a pillar of France’s literary scene for more than three decades. Her breakthrough novel Incest, published in 1999, was a blisteringly ...

Christine Angot, trans. from the French by Armine Kotin Morimer. Archipelago, $18 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-953861-04-7 The uneven latest from Angot (Incest) slowly unveils the devastating impact ...

Fans of the French novelist Christine Angot praise her “courageous” writing, her skilful conflations of fiction and autobiography, her “challenging” of social taboos. Critics say she’s guilty of ...

A controversial French author has published a book which relates how she had an incestuous relationship with her father aged 26 after he raped her as a child. Author and journalist Christine Angot, ...

The award-winning novelist brought a camera crew along to interview her family about the trauma she suffered as a teenager for the film premiering at the Berlin Film Festival: "I've always refused to ...