Claude TRUONG-NGOC · CC BY-SA 3.0

Co-founded the first women's studies center at a European university, at the University of Paris VIII in 1969, the same year her debut novel Dedans won the Prix Médicis. She became a foundational figure in post-structural feminism with her 1976 essay "The Laugh of the Medusa," and over a prolific career has written more than seventy books spanning theatre, literary criticism, art writing and poetic fiction. She has collaborated with figures including Jacques Derrida and theatre director Ariane Mnouchkine.