She grew up in Nancy, France in a working-class family. Virginie Despentes was born as Virginie Daget in 1969. Later works such as Apocalypse Bébé (2010) and the Vernon Subutex trilogy (2015–17) received many positive reviews. Her book King Kong Theory is sometimes taught in gender studies and 'often passed down to millennial women as a recommendation from a cool, not-that-much-older mentor.' For years after the release of her 1993 novel Rape Me, she was depicted by French literary institutions as an outsider or ' enfant terrible', and drew criticism from both the political left and right. She is one of the most popular French authors from this era. Her characters deal with misery and injustice, self-violence such as drug addiction, or violence towards others such as rape or terrorism, violences she has also suffered from. With a transgressive exploration of obscenity's limits, as a novelist or a film-maker she proposes social critique and an antidote to the new moral order. Work ĭespentes' work is an inventory of youth marginalization it pertains to the sexual revolution lived by Generation X and to the acclimation of pornography in public spaces through new communication techniques. She is known for her work exploring gender, sexuality, and people who live in poverty or other marginalised conditions.

Virginie Despentes ( French: born 13 June 1969) is a French writer, novelist, and filmmaker.

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