She was a “keen observer of society” and a “relentless activist for freedom of expression and republican and democratic values in the face of obscurantism,” according to her publishing house, Le Seuil.
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The novelist and journalist Maryse Wolinski, widow of the cartoonist Georges Wolinski, killed in the attack on 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 Sud-Ouest in Bordeaux and going through Sunday Newspaper, She Where The World-Sunday, she devoted herself to literature. After the death of her husband, she also devoted three books to him published by Le Seuil, “Honey, I’m going to Charlie” (2016), The taste of the good life (2018), and At the risk of life (2020).
Le Seuil described her 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”.