She was born in Lausanne , in a family of teachers and spent her childhood in Alexandria , and then in Athens , where her father was working. She started working as a sex worker at the beginning of the sixties.
She lived in Germany, with her children she had four and her lover. She died of cancer in Geneva in In her first book, Le noir est une couleur Black is a color β Balland, , ISBN , she told her story in a blunt and honest way, with a dark lyrical tone she got from her own experience.
The revolutionary whore was born. She helped in the creation of a support association Aspasie [ fr ] for prostitutes. In her tiny home in Geneva, she created an international documentation center about prostitution. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version.
In other projects. Wikimedia Commons. Swiss writer and prostitute. Lausanne , Switzerland. Geneva , Switzerland. Allocine in French. Retrieved 27 December Broadly - The Vice. Authority control databases. Deutsche Biographie. Historical Dictionary of Switzerland IdRef. Prostitute , activist, writer. Co-founder of Aspasie.
