to The novelist and journalist Maryse Wolinski, widow of the cartoonist Georges Wolinski, killed in the attack against Charlie hebdo, died Thursday, December 9 at the age of 78. “The Editions du Seuil are very sad to announce the disappearance of Maryse Wolinski, in Paris, on December 9”, announced 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.
After a career in the press, starting with South West in Bordeaux and through Sunday Newspaper, She Where The World-Sunday, she devoted herself to literature. In To hell with Vauvert (1988), The Master of Love (1992), Open letter to men who have understood nothing about women (1993) or The woman who loved men (1998), she develops her favorite themes: family, intimacy, love and disenchantment.
After the death of her husband Georges Wolinski, she devoted three books to him published by Editions du Seuil (Honey I’m going to Charlie, in 2016, The taste of the good life, in 2018, and At the risk of life in 2020.
“I think I had the chance of my life “, confided Maryse Wolinski speaking of her meeting with her husband. “I must say that it enchanted my life, besides, he made my life. I was 20 years old when I met him, he taught me freedom. I mean he told me. almost created (…) This man pushed me into life. “
Editions du Seuil described it as a “keen observer of society” and an activist “implacable of freedom of expression and of republican and democratic values in the face of obscurantism”. Maryse Wolinski “was also very attentive to feminist movements and the place of women in society”, recalled the publishing house. She greets “the elegance of his courage, the stubbornness of his thought and the values which animated him”.
Maryse Wolinski actively supported a project to which her husband was very attached: the creation of a “European House of Press Cartoon”.