The novelist and journalist Maryse Wolinski, widow of cartoonist Georges Wolinski killed in the attack on Charlie Hebdo, died Thursday at the age of 78, after having written three poignant books devoted to her husband.
"The Editions du Seuil are very sad to announce the disappearance of Maryse Wolinski, in Paris, on December 9," said the publishing house.
Born Maryse Bachère in Algiers, originally from Lot-et-Garonne, she was married for 43 years with the designer who was killed in January 2015. They had a daughter, Elsa.
In 2020, while promoting her book
At the risk of life
, she indicated on the LCI set to suffer from lung cancer.
Three "poignant stories" about her husband
After a career in the press, starting with
Sud-Ouest
in Bordeaux and going through
Le Journal du dimanche
,
Elle
or
Le Monde-Dimanche
, she devoted herself to literature. “It was in 1988 that she established herself as a full-fledged novelist, with
Au diable Vauvert
, her first novel, published by Flammarion: intimacy and secrecy, family life, love (or lack of love ) in the couple, as many themes which will form the material of his later novels, underlines the Threshold in a press release.
Maryse Wolinski "was also very attentive to feminist movements and the place of women in society", recalled the publishing house.
She salutes "the elegance of her courage, the stubbornness of her thought and the values which animated her".
There followed successes such as
The Master of Love
(1992),
Open Letter to Men Who Understood Nothing to Women
(1993) or
The Woman Who Loved Men
(1998).
After the death of her husband, she devoted three books to him published by Le Seuil, "three poignant stories:
Chérie, je va à Charlie
(2016),
The taste of the good life
(2018), and
At the risk of life
( 2020) ”.
Civil party in
Charlie's
trial
She had said that Wolinski was no longer so happy in a newspaper which had lost "the funny and fraternal atmosphere" of its beginnings.
She also deplored that security was not up to par around an editorial staff regularly threatened for its criticism against Islam.
“So who made the decision to lighten the protection system, and why?
(…) There were loopholes in the security of Charlie Hebdo and they are numerous ”, she writes in“ Honey, I'm going to Charlie ”.
At the trial of this attack at the end of 2020 before the special assize court in Paris, she was a civil party.
But before the opening of the debates, she affirmed that the audience would not answer her questions on "the dysfunctions" of the police force and the anti-terrorism.
"Fine observer of society"
Le Seuil described her as a “keen observer of society” and an “implacable activist for freedom of expression and republican and democratic values in the face of obscurantism”. "She will have carried with a deep conviction and a great commitment the project of creation of a House of the press cartoon and the satirical drawing", according to the editor. "The JDD offers its sincere condolences to its relatives and associates itself with their grief", wrote on Twitter Cyril Petit, editorial director of the newspaper, where she began her career in 1968 and where she met her future husband.
“Very saddened by the death of Maryse Wolinski, whom I only recently met to defend with her her project for a press cartoon house.
A bruised woman but warm and pugnacious ", tweeted the designer Xavier Gorce, the father of" indégivables ".
Wednesday, Elsa Wolinski had greeted on Instagram the way in which her mother faced her imminent death "with courage and elegance".
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