Corinne Maier
Corinne Maier (born 7 December 1963) is a Swiss-born, French psychoanalyst, economist, and best-selling writer. She is best known for being the author of Bonjour paresse, a cynical critique of French corporate culture. In 2016, Maier was named as one of the BBC 100 Women.
Biography
[edit]Maier was born on 7 December 1963 in Geneva, Switzerland. She attended National Foundation of Political Sciences, studying economics and international relations, later earning a doctorate in psychoanalysis. The author of Bonjour paresse [Hello Laziness], Maier is a satirist who has been compared to Scott Adams.[1] She became employed by Électricité de France as an economist c. 1992.[2] In 2004, she wrote Bonjour paresse, which reached the number one ranking on Amazon's French-language bestseller list.[1] In 2016, she was chosen as one of BBC's 100 Women.[3]
Maier is Jewish and is the mother of two children, a son and a daughter.[4]
Selected works
[edit]- 2004, Hello laziness! : why hard work doesn't pay, non-fiction, Orion (GB) ; 2005, Bonjour Laziness, Pantheon (USA), 2007 ;
- 2009, No kids, 40 reasons not to have children, non-fiction, Mcclelland & Steward (Canada) ;
- 2013, Freud, an illustrated biography (scenario), Nobrow (GB) ;
- 2014, Marx, an illustrated biography (scenario), Nobrow (GB) ;
- 2016, Einstein, an illustrated biography (scenario), Nobrow (GB)
- 2017, Marx, Freud, Einstein, Heroes of the mind, Nobrow (GB)
- 2021, The Conquest of the red man (novel), Wrecking Ball Press (GB).
References
[edit]- ^ a b Johnson, Jo (16 August 2004). "The slacker's new bible". NBC. Archived from the original on 13 January 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
- ^ Smith, Craig S. (14 August 2004). "A French Employee's Work Celebrates the Sloth Ethic". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
- ^ "BBC 100 Women 2016: Who is on the list?". BBC. 21 November 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
- ^ "Viewpoint: Changing the world is more important than changing nappies". BBC News. 26 November 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
External links
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Media related to Corinne Maier at Wikimedia Commons- Corinne Maier at Wikiquote (in French)
- Official website (in French)
- Corinne Maier at IMDb
- 1963 births
- 21st-century French non-fiction writers
- 21st-century French women writers
- French economists
- French people of Swiss-Jewish descent
- French satirists
- French women economists
- Jewish women writers
- Living people
- Writers from Geneva
- Sciences Po alumni
- Swiss expatriates in France
- 21st-century Swiss Jews
- Women satirists