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Anne Berest (born 15 September 1979) is a French writer and actress.

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Biography

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In 2008 she adapted Patrick Modiano's short autobiography Un Pedigree for the theatre with Edouard Baer.[1] Denis Westhoff [fr], son of Françoise Sagan asked Berest to write about the creation of his mother's novel, Bonjour Tristesse.[2] The resulting book, Sagan 1954, was well received by critics: Berest "searched for and found les mot justes".[3]

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 movement.[4]

Her novel La Carte Postale (The Postcard), was published in 2021 in French [5] and translated into English in 2023 by Tina Kover. [6] The autobiographical novel is entirely based on real events that happened throughout Berest's life. [7] It tells the stories of Anne Berest's relatives' experience during World War Two by piecing together the research that Anne and her mother did to learn more about where they came from. [8] In the novel, Anne becomes determined to figure out who sent her family a mysterious postcard in 2003 with the names of their family members who died in Auschwitz written on the back. [9] In 2021 La Carte Postale made the final selection for the Prix Goncourt[10] as well as the Prix Renaudot.[11]

Books

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  • La Fille de son père, éditions du Seuil, 2010, ISBN 978-2-02-102783-9
  • Les Patriarches, éditions Grasset, 2012 ISBN 978-2-246-80084-2
  • Sagan 1954, éditions Stock, 2014, ISBN 978-2-234-07740-9
  • How to be Parisian wherever you are (with Audrey Diwan, Caroline de Maigret and Anne Berest, Doubleday, 2014, ISBN 978-0-09-195809-1
  • Recherche femme parfaite, éditions Grasset, 2015, ISBN 978-2-246-85244-5
  • Gabriële (with Claire Berest), éditions Stock, 2017 ISBN 978-2-234-08618-0
  • La Visite, suivi de Les Filles de nos filles, Actes Sud, 2020, ISBN 978-2-330-13154-8
  • La Carte postale, éditions Grasset, 2021 ISBN 9782246820505; translated into English in 2023 by Tina Kover, The Postcard
  • Finistère, Éditions Albin Michel, 2025, ISBN 9782226487186

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Anne Berest (born 15 September 1979) is a French writer and actress whose literary works frequently explore themes of family heritage, Jewish identity, and historical trauma. Berest gained international prominence with her 2023 novel The Postcard, an autofictional account triggered by an anonymous 2003 postcard to her mother listing the names of four Jewish relatives—her great-grandparents Ephraim and Emma Rabinovitch and their daughters Noémie and Jacques—deported from France to Auschwitz in 1942, where they perished. The book traces five generations of her family's history, from Russian pogroms to the Holocaust's impact on subsequent generations, blending archival research, family interviews, and narrative reconstruction to examine intergenerational transmission of trauma. Earlier, she co-authored the global bestseller How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style and Bad Habits (2014) with , Anne-Sophie Hersheimer, and , offering humorous insights into French women's lifestyles. Berest also collaborated with her sister Claire on Gabriële (2017), a biography of their great-grandmother Gabriële Buffet-Picabia, a French artist, , and Resistance fighter who was muse to and wife to . Her Sagan 1954 (2014) fictionalizes the early life of French author Françoise . The Postcard earned widespread acclaim, becoming a national bestseller in and the , winning the 2022 : Choix des États-Unis, and prompting Berest's American book tour; it has been translated into over 20 languages. As the great-granddaughter of avant-garde figures, Berest's oeuvre reflects a commitment to unearthing suppressed personal and collective histories through rigorous inquiry into primary documents and survivor testimonies.

Early Life and Family Background

Birth and Immediate Family

Anne Berest was born on September 15, 1979, in , , to parents Lélia Picabia and Pierre Berest. The middle of three daughters, Berest grew up alongside her older sister and younger sister Claire in Sceaux, a suburb south of , where the family resided during her early childhood. Her mother, Lélia Picabia, is a linguist specializing in , while her father, Pierre Berest, is a trained at the and École des Mines, with research expertise in . The household maintained a secular orientation despite Jewish ancestry traced through her mother's maternal line, with limited engagement in religious practices during Berest's formative years.

Ancestral Jewish Heritage and Historical Traumas

Anne Berest's maternal lineage traces to the Rabinovitch family, from the who endured waves of antisemitic violence, including pogroms that intensified after the 1905 revolution and persisted through the early 20th century, driving mass emigration from regions like and . Ephraïm Rabinovitch, born in 1890 in , , married Emma, born in 1892 in , ; the couple relocated amid persecution, first to , —where their daughter Noémie was born on March 15, 1923—then briefly to due to ongoing , before settling in by the . In occupied , Ephraïm, Emma, Noémie, and their son Jacques faced Nazi deportation policies targeting . On August 3, 1942, the family was arrested in and transported from the to Auschwitz via one of the early mass convoys following the July 1942 , a collaborationist operation that facilitated the roundup of over 13,000 in alone. None survived the extermination camp's selections and gassings, as confirmed by postwar records; their eldest daughter, Myriam (Lélia Berest's mother), evaded deportation and represented the sole surviving branch of this immediate family line. An anonymous postcard received by Lélia Berest in 2003 at their home listed the full names of the deported relatives—Ephraïm, Emma, , —alongside an image of the Opéra Garnier, prompting cross-verification against archives such as those at , which document over 4.8 million victim names and confirm the Rabinovitch family's entries among the 75,000 French Jews deported to Auschwitz between 1942 and 1944. These records, drawn from Nazi transport lists and survivor testimonies, underscore the systematic nature of the deportations, with Convoy 14 or similar early trains carrying entire families to immediate death upon arrival.

Education and Formative Influences

Academic Training

Anne Berest obtained her with a specialization in following secondary studies focused on literary subjects. She subsequently enrolled in classes préparatoires at the Lycée Fénelon in , a preparatory program typically aimed at entrance to elite higher education institutions. At the Sorbonne, Berest pursued advanced studies in theatrical disciplines, culminating in a mémoire on supervised by Georges Forestier, a scholar of seventeenth-century French theater. This graduate-level work emphasized the structural and rhetorical elements of dramatic narrative, providing a foundation in analytical frameworks for textual and performative composition that informed her later explorations of and identity through rigorous textual . Her formal training, completed in the early 2000s, thus centered on and theater rather than , distinguishing it from broader cultural engagements.

Early Intellectual and Cultural Exposures

Berest was raised in Sceaux, a suburb south of , within a secular and assimilated Jewish family that imposed silence on fates of her maternal Rabinovitch relatives, deported to Auschwitz in 1942. This reticence created early experiential gaps in her understanding of heritage, evident when she encountered voids in her during elementary school exercises. The household, led by her mother Lélia—a structural linguist and college professor—emphasized and socialist values over religious observance, leaving Berest without exposure to Jewish rituals or traditions and fostering an identity tied more to regional French roots, such as on her maternal side. Direct encounters with antisemitism further shaped her nascent worldview. In 1986, at age seven, a swastika was daubed on her family home, introducing a visceral confrontation with hostility toward her background. A subsequent incident involved a mentor teacher who turned aloof upon discovering Berest's ancestral losses at Auschwitz, eroding trust and amplifying internal conflicts over that oscillated between and through her youth. Amid France's cultural landscape of —where survivors often minimized traumas to integrate—Berest absorbed cautionary narratives from community elders warning of antisemitism's recurrence, views she initially rejected as outdated. These environmental undercurrents, blending familial opacity with sporadic external threats, instilled a latent curiosity about suppressed lineages without formal religious or communal anchors.

Literary Career

Initial Publications and Style Development

Anne Berest entered the literary scene with her La Fille de son père, published by Éditions du Seuil on August 19, 2010. The work centers on three sisters reuniting at their father's home for an anniversary dinner, where resurfacing memories and family secrets probe the complexities of paternal bonds and rivalries. Drawing from intimate familial dynamics, the narrative employs a sharp, that dissects emotional undercurrents without overt sentimentality. Critical reception for La Fille de son père was generally positive within French literary outlets, praising its acuity in portraying all-female ties and generational tensions, though it garnered modest commercial attention with average reader ratings around 3.2 out of 5 from over 170 reviews. This initial effort established Berest's inclination toward semi-autobiographical explorations of heritage and identity, foreshadowing her later investigative approach. In 2012, she followed with Les Patriarches at Éditions Grasset, a examining patriarchal decline through familial and societal lenses, further honing a style that interweaves personal with broader cultural commentary. By 2014, Berest's style evolved with Sagan 1954, published by Éditions Stock, commissioned by Denis Westhoff to reconstruct the genesis of his mother Françoise Sagan's . This hybrid text merges fictional reconstruction with archival research, adopting a journalistic precision to evoke mid-20th-century literary milieu. Critics commended her pursuit of "les mots justes," marking a shift toward documentary-infused narratives that blend rigorous inquiry with evocative storytelling. These early publications, while not yielding widespread sales or major prizes, positioned Berest in niche French literary circles, refining her hallmark of fusing lived experience with historical verisimilitude.

Major Works: The Postcard and Family Investigations

La Carte postale, Anne Berest's 2021 novel published by Éditions Grasset on August 18, centers on an anonymous postcard received by Berest's mother in January 2003 at their Paris-area home. The card featured an image of the Paris Opera on one side and, handwritten on the other, the names of Berest's great-grandparents, Ephraim and Emma Rabinovitch, along with their daughters Noémie, Jacqueline, and Myriam—four relatives deported to Auschwitz in 1942. This unexplained message, arriving amid routine holiday mail, ignited Berest's years-long quest to uncover its sender and reconstruct her family's obscured past, transforming a personal enigma into the novel's investigative core. Berest's research process involved meticulous archival dives, survivor interviews, and cross-referencing to trace the Rabinovitch family's trajectory from early 20th-century —fleeing Bolshevik Revolution pogroms—to , , and eventually in the 1920s. Key revelations detailed their arrests during the July 16-17, 1942, Vél d'Hiv' roundup, a Vichy French operation that collaborated with Nazi authorities to detain over 13,000 Jews in , funneling them to transit camps like before Auschwitz deportation. Drawing from French , police records, and eyewitness accounts, Berest documented how French gendarmes executed the initial sweeps, underscoring the regime's active role in the family's separation and demise, with only distant branches surviving through evasion or hiding. This forensic approach not only identified potential postcard origins linked to family lore but also exhumed suppressed details of the Rabinovitch siblings' pre-war lives as artists and intellectuals in . Structured as , the narrative interweaves dual timelines: the 1940s chronicle of the Rabinovitch family's unraveling amid rising European and occupation policies, juxtaposed against Berest's contemporary Paris-based detective work, including consultations with rabbis, genealogists, and historians. This alternation highlights sequential historical pressures—from discriminatory laws to mass arrests—that precipitated the deportations, framing the postcard as a lingering echo of unhealed ruptures. The blend of and reconstruction eschews pure fiction, grounding speculative elements in verified records to prioritize evidentiary chains over embellishment. Upon release, La Carte postale achieved bestseller status in France, sustaining sales through 2023 with hundreds of thousands of copies sold, and earned a nomination for the Prix Renaudot des Lycéens in 2021 alongside other accolades like the Grand Prix des Lectrices de ELLE in 2022. Its English translation, The Postcard, appeared in 2023 via Europa Editions, amplifying the investigative narrative's reach and prompting discussions on archival recovery of Holocaust-era losses. The work's impact stems from its rigorous sourcing, which lent credibility to the family's reconstructed fate and the postcard's unresolved provenance, influencing subsequent family dialogues on inherited silences.

Recent Collaborations and Expansions

In 2025, Anne Berest collaborated with her sister, novelist Claire Berest, on Gabriële, a biographical reconstructing the life of their great-grandmother, Gabriële Buffet-Picabia, a pivotal figure in early 20th-century art circles. The work draws on historical documents, family archives, and interviews to detail Buffet-Picabia's relationships with artists like and , her role in promoting and , and her efforts to reclaim agency amid patriarchal oversights in . This joint effort marks a shift from Berest's prior solo explorations of family trauma to a shared familial endeavor emphasizing overlooked women's contributions within Jewish intellectual lineages and modernist innovation. Published in English by Europa Editions on April 22, 2025, Gabriële extends Berest's oeuvre into broader anglophone audiences, following the 2023 translation of her earlier novel The Postcard. The book received early acclaim, including selection as a May 2025 Indie Next List pick, for its vivid portrayal of Buffet-Picabia's "passionate love affair that triggered a revolution" in artistic paradigms. To promote it, Anne and Claire Berest undertook a U.S. tour in April 2025, featuring events at venues such as Newtonville Books in and Harvard Book Store, alongside discussions at cultural institutions like the . These appearances built on Berest's prior American engagements for The Postcard in 2023, signaling sustained international expansion amid growing interest in her documentary-style family narratives.

Screenwriting and Multimedia Contributions

Key Projects in Film and Television

Anne Berest has contributed to several French television projects and films as a , often collaborating with directors on intimate, character-driven narratives that explore personal deceptions and relationships, diverging from the introspective, autobiographical depth of her novels by emphasizing ensemble dynamics and visual tension under production constraints. In 2014, Berest co-wrote the telefilm Que d'Amour! (also known as Just Love!), directed by and broadcast on , which depicts a couple navigating infidelity and reconciliation through fragmented, non-linear storytelling to heighten emotional immediacy on screen. She participated in scripting the 2017 Canal+ series Paris, etc., directed by , adapting Michel Houellebecq's novel into 12 interconnected vignettes of urban loneliness and fleeting connections, where collaborative writing necessitated concise dialogue and visual motifs over the expansive prose of literary sources. Berest co-created and wrote the Arte series Mytho (2019–2021), directed by Fabrice Gobert, a spanning two seasons about a middle-aged fabricating a youthful identity amid family crises; this project marked her most prominent television credit, earning awards like the Prix du Scénario for its taut pacing and ensemble interplay, contrasting her solo novelistic control by integrating director input for suspenseful reveals suited to episodic format. More recently, Berest co-wrote the screenplay for the 2025 film Vie privée (A Private Life), directed by , a comedy-drama intertwining personal investigation with relational intrigue, reflecting her shift toward cinematic hybrids of mystery and domesticity while adapting to film's demand for streamlined narratives over literary digressions.

Integration of Personal Narratives in Screen Work

In her , particularly for the series Mytho (2019–2021), Anne Berest integrates elements drawn from her personal family experiences, adapting motifs of secrecy, relational strain, and identity reconstruction into dramatic narratives suited for television. Co-created with director Fabrice Gobert and premiered on in June 2019 with six episodes followed by a second season in 2021, Mytho centers on Elodie Lambert, a mother who fabricates a diagnosis to reclaim familial attention, unraveling a web of household deceptions that exposes underlying dysfunctions. Berest has stated that the Lambert family dynamics mirror aspects of her own suburban childhood, including parental interactions and the emotional toll of caregiving, transforming private recollections into a framework for exploring how lies serve as distorted tools for familial cohesion. This incorporation extends to specific autobiographical touchpoints, such as Berest's observations of her mother's recovery from , which informed the series' portrayal of illness as a catalyst for both humor and within family responses. The motifs emphasize reconstruction through escalating revelations—family members confront fabricated histories that parallel real-life silences and unspoken burdens—while addressing identity crises, notably through the character of Sam, a non-binary teenager grappling with self-definition amid parental neglect. Berest drew inspiration for such elements from encounters like her meeting with actress , whose role in Transparent highlighted contemporary queer identity explorations, weaving these into dialogue to reflect evolving personal and generational tensions. Translating these personal depths to screen presented challenges, as Berest navigated the shift from introspective, research-driven literary investigations—evident in her broader oeuvre on familial legacies—to the exigencies of episodic pacing and character-driven exposition. In Mytho, the investigative unraveling of secrets is condensed into interpersonal confrontations and visual cues rather than extended monologues, requiring a balance to avoid sensationalizing trauma while preserving emotional authenticity; Berest emphasized respecting the gravity of illness-derived experiences by infusing levity without trivialization, a process informed by her lived mental load as a working mother. This approach underscores a deliberate strategy, prioritizing relational over exhaustive to sustain viewer engagement across seasons.

Core Themes and Public Positions

Explorations of Jewish Identity and Memory

Berest's literary explorations recurrently depict the inherent conflict faced by secular French Jews, who often prioritize cultural assimilation into the republican ideals of laïcité and universalism while grappling with the imperative of historical remembrance. This tension manifests as a psychological rift, where individuals suppress ancestral narratives to integrate fully into French society, only for suppressed memories to resurface through familial artifacts or personal crises, compelling a reevaluation of identity. Such portrayals underscore how assimilation, while offering social mobility, erodes communal ties and fosters a fragmented self-perception, particularly among post-war generations raised in environments devoid of religious practice. Intergenerational transmission of trauma forms a core motif, tracing causal chains from early 20th-century Russian pogroms—episodes of organized violence that displaced thousands of , including Berest's forebears fleeing Kishinev and regions around 1905—to the regime's systematic betrayals during . Empirical records indicate that between 1903 and 1906, over 2,000 were killed in pogroms, prompting mass emigration and seeding patterns of rootlessness that persisted into European contexts. In , Vichy's 1940-1941 statutes excluded from public life and facilitated the of approximately 76,000, including assimilated families who had naturalized as French citizens, revealing how bureaucratic complicity amplified inherited vulnerabilities rather than mitigating them. Berest illustrates this continuity not through emotional abstraction but via concrete mechanisms: inherited silences, migratory instabilities, and the abrupt revocation of civil protections, which perpetuate cycles of vigilance and alienation across generations. Central to these motifs is the depiction of "ordinary" Jewish lives—those of professionals, artists, and families embedded in urban French society—disrupted by entrenched systemic hatred, emphasizing causal factors like discriminatory over individualized . Berest portrays protagonists not as heroic resisters but as everyday citizens whose routines unravel through escalating state-sanctioned exclusions, such as asset seizures and camps under Vichy ordinances, which targeted even integrated households regardless of loyalty or contributions to French culture. This approach highlights how operates through institutional levers— registrations, quota laws, and collaborationist roundups—transforming banal existences into precarity, a realism grounded in archival evidence of over 11,000 Jewish children deported from , many from assimilated backgrounds. By focusing on these prosaic upheavals, her works reveal the fragility of assimilation as a bulwark against recurrent hatred, prioritizing verifiable historical processes over romanticized narratives of endurance.

Critiques of Antisemitism in Contemporary France

In interviews, Berest has highlighted incidents of encountered by her daughter in a French school during the early 2000s, where peers propagated tropes such as being responsible for , leading the child to question her and express a desire not to be . This personal experience, which Berest describes as emblematic of everyday infiltrating educational environments, prompted her deeper investigation into family history and underscored her critique of persistent societal undercurrents that undermine security despite post-World War II commemorative efforts. Berest rejects narratives of antisemitism's obsolescence in modern , pointing to its resurgence in forms tied to Islamist influences following events like the 2015 Hypercacher kosher attack, which exacerbated emigration considerations among French Jews amid hundreds of reported incidents that year. She expresses skepticism toward claims of French complacency being fully addressed by laws like the 2003 Lellouche Law criminalizing antisemitic acts, arguing that empirical realities—such as recurrent schoolyard hostilities and spikes in violence—reveal gaps in enforcement and . While critiquing these trends, Berest acknowledges countervailing French societal empathy, evidenced by widespread public engagement with narratives during her research, including responses from strangers aiding her genealogical inquiries. This duality informs her position: harbors genuine interest in Jewish memory, as seen in sustained education programs, yet permits minimization of contemporary threats in certain media and institutional discourses, where is sometimes downplayed relative to other prejudices. Her views emphasize causal links between unaddressed historical silences and modern incidents, urging vigilance over generalized optimism.

Reception, Awards, and Critiques

Commercial Success and Literary Prizes

La Carte postale (2021), translated into English as The Postcard (2023), sold over 330,000 copies in , marking it as a commercial . The novel's sales were bolstered by its shortlisting for 's leading literary awards, including the and , though it did not secure the top prizes. Berest received several accolades for the work, such as the Prix Renaudot des lycéens, the inaugural Choix Goncourt United States (selected by American students), and the ELLE Readers' Prize. In the United States, The Postcard achieved national indie bestseller status and earned placements on year-end best books lists from NPR, TIME, and Library Journal. This recognition supported its international dissemination, with Berest conducting promotional tours, including a U.S. tour in April-May 2023.

Critical Assessments and Potential Shortcomings

Critics have praised Berest's work, particularly The Postcard, for its archival rigor, drawing on two decades of her mother's genealogical research into France's bureaucratic machinery and family records. This depth lends historical authenticity to the narrative, blending meticulous documentation with autofictional elements that innovate by interweaving personal quest with invented dialogues and temporal compressions, creating a page-turning detective-like structure. Some assessments highlight potential shortcomings in balancing personal anecdote against broader historical analysis, with critic Camille Laurens faulting Berest's interrogations of her mother as simplistic or "inane," likening the approach to a primer on the Shoah that prioritizes emotional discovery over analytical nuance. The emphasis on intergenerational trauma and irredeemable loss eschews uplifting resolutions common in other Holocaust narratives, which may amplify subjective feeling at the expense of detached examination, though this very starkness underscores the work's unflinching portrayal of persistent . Diverse viewpoints appreciate the realism in depicting France's collaborationist betrayal of Jews, resonating with those confronting rising contemporary , while others question if the intimate family lens risks exclusivity, potentially underplaying wider societal mechanisms in favor of individual . Overall, reception favors the narrative's emotional potency and investigative drive, yet underscores tensions in autofiction's hybrid form when addressing collective historical memory.

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