Anne Berest (born 15 September 1979) is a French writer and actress.
Biography
In 2008 she adapted
Patrick Modiano short autobiography
Un Pedigree for the theatre with
Edouard Baer.
, son of Françoise Sagan asked Berest to write about the creation of his mother's novel, Bonjour Tristesse.
The resulting book,
Sagan 1954, was well received by critics: Berest "searched for and found les mot justes".
In 2017, with her sister Claire Berest, she wrote a biography of her great-grandmother Gabrièle Buffet-Picabia. With Gabriële, the Berest sisters succeeded in bringing attention to their great-grandmother's often overlooked life and influence in the art world, specifically within the Dada.
Her novel La Carte Postale ( The Postcard), was published in 2021 in French
Books
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La Fille de son père, éditions du Seuil, 2010,
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Les Patriarches, éditions Grasset, 2012
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Sagan 1954, éditions Stock, 2014,
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How to be Parisian wherever you are (with Audrey Diwan, Caroline de Maigret and Anne Berest, Doubleday, 2014,
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Recherche femme parfaite, éditions Grasset, 2015,
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Gabriële (with Claire Berest), éditions Stock, 2017
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La Visite, suivi de Les Filles de nos filles, Actes Sud, 2020,
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La Carte postale, éditions Grasset, 2021 ; translated into English in 2023 by Tina Kover, The Postcard
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Finistère, Éditions Albin Michel, 2025,
Screenwriter
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Que d'Amour! (Just Love) by Marivaux, telefilm directed by Valérie Donzelli shown on Arte in 2014 - co-writer
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Paris Etc., series directed by Zabou Breitman shown on Canal+ in 2017 - co-writer
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Mytho, directed by Fabrice Gobert, released on Netflix in 2019 - co-writer (and co-creator)
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Valiant Hearts (2021), film directed by Mona Achache
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