Corinne Maier

Corinne Maier (born 7 December 1963) is a Swiss-born, French psychoanalyst, economist, and best-selling writer. She is best known for being the author of Bonjour paresse, a cynical critique of French corporate culture. In 2016, Maier was named as one of the BBC 100 Women.

Biography

Maier was born on 7 December 1963 in Geneva, Switzerland. She attended National Foundation of Political Sciences, studying economics and international relations, later earning a doctorate in psychoanalysis. The author of Bonjour paresse [Hello Laziness], Maier is a satirist who has been compared to Scott Adams.[1] She became employed by Électricité de France as an economist c. 1992.[2] In 2004, she wrote Bonjour paresse, which reached the number one ranking on Amazon's French-language bestseller list.[1] In 2016, she was chosen as one of BBC's 100 Women.[3]

Maier is Jewish and is the mother of two children, a son and a daughter.[4]

Selected works

  • 2004, Hello laziness! : why hard work doesn't pay, non-fiction, Orion (GB) ; 2005, Bonjour Laziness, Pantheon (USA), 2007 ;
  • 2009, No kids, 40 reasons not to have children, non-fiction, Mcclelland & Steward (Canada) ;
  • 2013, Freud, an illustrated biography (scenario), Nobrow (GB) ;
  • 2014, Marx, an illustrated biography (scenario), Nobrow (GB) ;
  • 2016, Einstein, an illustrated biography (scenario), Nobrow (GB)
  • 2017, Marx, Freud, Einstein, Heroes of the mind, Nobrow (GB)
  • 2021, The Conquest of the red man (novel), Wrecking Ball Press (GB).

References

  1. 1 2 Johnson, Jo (16 August 2004). "The slacker's new bible". NBC. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  2. ↑ Smith, Craig S. (14 August 2004). "A French Employee's Work Celebrates the Sloth Ethic". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  3. ↑ "BBC 100 Women 2016: Who is on the list?". BBC. 21 November 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  4. ↑ "Viewpoint: Changing the world is more important than changing nappies". BBC News. 26 November 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
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