FILLE DE PUTE / MY MOTHER’S A WHORE – SWANN DUPONT

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Swann Dupont

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Istya & Cie
January 2026

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MY MOTHER'S A WHORE

Rights Holder: Istya & Cie

Original Language: French

A powerful novel about a modern-day Lolita in which insults become weapons and wounded voices turn into cries for freedom.

Swann grows up in one of those forgotten villages in France where social violence is a daily occurrence. The expression « your mother's a whore » which she has heard since childhood, sticks to her like a curse. More than an insult, it is a stigma that shapes her view of others and herself.

As a teenager, Swann seeks to exist between desires, excesses, and rebellions. Her body becomes the battleground of her identity: sexual discoveries, troubled relationships, intense friendships where love mingles with violence.With an absent family and wavering reference points, all that remains is a solitary quest for meaning, on the margins of an indifferent world. But in this chaos, Swann discovers a weapon: words. Saying the unspeakable, reclaiming her story, transforming insults into cries of freedom. With raw, poetic, and angry language, Fille de pute tells the story of a young woman who refuses to give in, choosing to speak out rather than remain silent.

A story of emancipation and class defection, the novel paints an unvarnished portrait of contemporary youth, caught between survival and the desire for upward mobility, determined to invent a future for themselves outside the boxes imposed on them.

Swann Dupont holds a master's degree in cinema. She began her career as an actress before turning to writing. She directed her first film, Le Dernier homme de Vicky Venucci, in 2024, and the following year wrote the screenplay for the comic book France Profonde, published by Albin Michel. Fille de pute is her first novel.

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