Françoise Xenakis

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Marguerite Claude Françoise Xenakis (née Gargouïl; 27 September 1930 – 12 February 2018) was a French novelist and journalist, born in Blois, Loir-et-Cher. She started her literary career in the early 1960s, and became better known during the 1980s, when she started working at ''Le Matin de Paris'', a daily newspaper, and for ''Télématin'', a breakfast television news show. She chaired the judging panel for the literary prize ''30 Million Friends''.

In 1953, she married Iannis Xenakis, who later went on to become an important classical composer of the post-war avant-garde. Their daughter Mâkhi Xenakis, sculptor, painter and writer, was born in 1956. Provided by Wikipedia