Françoise Sagan
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Françoise Sagan was born in France in 1935. Bonjour tristesse (1954), published when she was just 19, became a succès de scandale and even earned its author a papal denunciation. Sagan went on to write many other novels, plays and screenplays, and died in 2004.
Books by Françoise Sagan
The Gigolo
Fifty new books at £1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry
Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile
Sagan's stylish, shimmering and amoral tale of adolescence and betrayal on the French Riviera
Bonjour Tristesse
Teenager terrible Cécile explores her sexual freedom one hot summer on the French Riviera
