Corinne Maier Explained

thumb|300px|Corinne MaierCorinne 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 1992.^[2] In 2004, she wrote Bonjour paresse, which reached the number one ranking on Amazon's French-language bestseller list. 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).

External links

• • Corinne Maier at Wikiquote (in French)
• Official website (in French)

Notes and References

1. News: Johnson. Jo. The slacker's new bible. https://web.archive.org/web/20160113142604/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5698558/ns/business-financial_times/t/slackers-new-bible/#.WEhTqZJOGfQ. dead. 13 January 2016. 7 December 2016. NBC. 16 August 2004.
2. News: Smith. Craig S.. A French Employee's Work Celebrates the Sloth Ethic. 7 December 2016. The New York Times. 14 August 2004.
3. Web site: BBC 100 Women 2016: Who is on the list?. BBC. 7 December 2016. 21 November 2016.
4. News: Viewpoint: Changing the world is more important than changing nappies . BBC News . 26 November 2016 . 2021-12-11.