Maryse Wolinski

Biography

Maryse Wolinski (3 May 1943 – 9 December 2021) was a French journalist, novelist and writer. She was the widow of cartoonist Georges Wolinski who died on 7 January 2015 during the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris.

Born in Algiers in May 1943, she spent her childhood in Paris and South East France, and at age 20 studied journalism. Her debut job was as a society writer in Sud-Ouest and later on Le Journal du Dimanche where she met her future husband cartoonist Georges Wolinski. They had three children. She also worked as a freelancer in a number of publications like F Magazine, Elle, Généraliste (a specialized medical magazine), and wrote frequently in Monde-Dimanche, a supplement to the dail...