Virginie Grimaldi appears – with Kendji Girac – among the guests of the new issue ofA Sunday in the countrysidee, broadcast this afternoon from 4:10 p.m. on France 2. For those who don't know who it is, she is quite simply one of the most read novelists in France for several years now. “The 47-year-old author occupies second place in the ranking of the most read novelists in France since 2020. Driven by the success of her latest novel A Beautiful Lifethe writer sold 1,062,582 books in 2023“, detail our colleagues from Capital.
Driven by her first novel The First Day of the Rest of My Lifepublished in 2015, she followed up with the publication of five other works, all of which became bestsellers. And despite all this, Virginie Grimaldi sometimes suffers certain criticisms, which seem quite unjustified due to the success she encounters. “It's quite rare, but I sometimes feel a certain contempt from certain authors or journalists“, she confided, for example, to Parisian last April.
How does she deal with all these remarks? “FI don't care, I don't care. They have the right to consider that I have no talent, to not like my novels. I know how to defend myself and humor is a great weapon. What bothers me, however, is when someone attacks my reader by explaining to him that he likes my novels because they are inconsistent. I see it as a rather violent form of contempt.“
Virginie Grimaldi, this label that we stick to her skin, or rather to that of her books
As a reminder, some of his novels are described as chick lit and feel-good literature. The first expression refers to books written by women for a predominantly female audience. And the second has works whose main characteristic is to give a feeling of happiness. And it is this category that does not attract unanimous support. Our colleagues from France Culture had particularly tried to understand why.
In any case, this does not seem to prevent the one who will be marked for life by the loss of her baby from continuing to write. She won't stop as long as her readers are loyal to her. And she is absolutely right!
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