Death of Maryse Wolinski, writer and widow of Charlie Hebdo cartoonist

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DEATH – The novelist and journalist Maryse Wolinskiwidow of the designer Georges wolinski killed in the attack against Charlie Hebdo, died Thursday, December 9 at the age of 78, announced to AFP its editor, the Threshold.

Born 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 girl, Elsa.

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 To hell with Vauvert, his first novel, published by Flammarion: intimacy and secrecy, family life, love (or lack of love) in the couple, so many themes that will form the material of his subsequent novels ”, underlines the Seuil in a statement.

Successes like The Master of Love (1992), Open letter to men who have understood nothing to women (1993) or The Woman who loved men (1998).

After the death of her husband, she devoted three books published by Le Seuil to him, “three poignant stories: Honey I’m going to Charlie (2016), The taste of the good life (2018), and At the risk of life (2020) ”.

Wednesday, Elsa Wolinski had greeted on Instagram the way in which her mother, sick, faced her imminent death “with courage and elegance”.