Corinne Maier

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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.

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Biography

Maier was born on 7 December 1963 in Geneva, Switzerland. Maier is Jewish. [1]

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. [2] She became employed by Électricité de France as an economist c. 1992. [3] In 2004, she wrote Bonjour paresse, which reached the number one ranking on Amazon's French-language bestseller list. [2] In 2016, she was chosen as one of BBC's 100 Women. [4]

Maier is the mother of two children, a son and a daughter. [1]

Selected works

References

  1. 1 2 "Viewpoint: Changing the world is more important than changing nappies". BBC News. 26 November 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  2. 1 2 Johnson, Jo (16 August 2004). "The slacker's new bible". NBC . Archived from the original on 13 January 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  3. ↑ Smith, Craig S. (14 August 2004). "A French Employee's Work Celebrates the Sloth Ethic". The New York Times . Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  4. ↑ "BBC 100 Women 2016: Who is on the list?". BBC. 21 November 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
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