Emma Becker
Emma Becker in 2009
Emma Becker in 2009
BornEmma Durand
(1988-12-14) December 14, 1988

Emma Becker (born 14 December 1988 in Île-de-France as Emma Durand) is a French writer living in Paris. Her pen name Becker is derived from Pannebecker, the family name of her German grandmother.[1]

Biography

Becker grew up in a middle-class family in Île-de-France (greater Paris region). Her father was an entrepreneur and her mother a psychologist. She attended a Catholic high school (lycée Montalembert), which she completed with the Baccalauréat (high school diploma) in 2006. Afterwards she studied literature at the New Sorbonne University (Sorbonne Nouvelle). In 2011 she published her first book, an erotic novel with the title Mr.. It describes the relationship of young female student and an older married man based her own experiences. After a failed relationship Becker left Paris to move to Berlin, where one of her aunts lived. There she worked on her second book and gave birth to a son. After the publication of her second book, she became interested in writing about prostitution and in an effort to immerse herself into that world she worked for two years as a prostitute in two local brothels. She described her experiences later in the autofiction novel La Maison, which was published in 2019.[1][2]

Becker relocated to Paris in 2021, got married and gave birth to a second son. She is currently in a relationship with fellow French writer Nicolas d'Estienne d'Orves.

Becker and d’Orves in public in 2023.

Books

  • Mr.. Éditions Denoël, 2011, ISBN 978-2-207-10950-2
    English edition: Monsieur. Arcade Publishing, 2012, translated by Maxim Jakubowski
  • Alice. Éditions Denoël, 2015, ISBN 978-2-207-12380-5
  • La Maison. Éditions Flammarion, 2019, ISBN 978-2-08-147040-8
  • L’inconduite. Éditions Albin Michel, 2022, ISBN 978-2-22-647560-2
  • Odile l'été. Julliard editions, 2023 ISBN 9782260055112

References

  1. 1 2 Lelièvre, Marie-Dominique (24 January 2011). "Emma Becker, elle a joué au docteur". Libération (in French). Retrieved 13 January 2024.
  2. ↑ Wolffheim, Franziska (21 September 2020). "Sex-Roman "La Maison": So antörnend wie eine kaputte Neonröhre". Der Spiegel (in German). ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
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