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Gisèle Pineau


Born
in Paris, France
January 01, 1956

Genre
Literature & Fiction


Gisèle Pineau is a French novelist, writer and former psychiatric nurse. Although born in Paris, her origins are Guadeloupean and she has written several books on the difficulties and torments of her childhood as a Black person growing up in Parisian society.

During her youth, she divided her time between France and Guadeloupe due to her father's stationing in the military.[2] Pineau struggled with her identity as a Black immigrant due to the racism and xenophobia she experienced at her all-white school in the Kremlin-Bicotre suburb.[2] Pineau took to writing in order to console the difficulties of her French upbringing and Caribbean heritage, as her works would connect the two cultures rather than separating them.[3][4]

In her writings, she ...more

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L'Exil Selon Julia
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The Drifting of Spirits
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Chair Piment
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Case mensonge
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Mes quatre femmes
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Cent vies et des poussières
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“...like a moth lost in dawn's light.”
― Gisèle Pineau, The Drifting of Spirits
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