Ève Charrin

Ève Charrin (born 1969 in Lyon) is a French journalist, literary critic and author.^[1]

She first wrote in the economic press (Challenges,^[2][3] occasionally Alternatives économiques^[4][5]). She also contributes to the magazine Esprit^[6] and to La Quinzaine littéraire, including a column, "Zone de turbulences", until 2016.

She then wrote very regularly in the pages "Idées" and "Culture" of Marianne^[7] and in the magazine Books, where she hosted a column.^[8][9]

She has also published in L'Obs,^[10][11] in the magazine XXI (investigations on Pascal Lamy, on the City of London, on the relationship to work; major interviews with Arundhati Roy, David Graeber), as well as in the magazine Le Crieur.^[12]

In 2007, after a three-year stay in New Delhi, she published L'Inde à l’assaut du monde (Grasset).^[13] This investigative essay shows that the unequal nature of Indian society, marked by the caste system, does not hinder the country's economic emergence (as measured by GDP). With its educated and English-speaking elites, early 21st-century India is indeed benefiting from globalization by exporting its high value-added services (particularly IT) at competitive prices.^[14]

She subsequently devoted herself to literature of the real, with La Voiture du Peuple et le sac Vuitton (2013), a collection of essays and fictions on globalization seen through 15 objects, La Course ou la Ville, an on-board story-report on delivery drivers. She continues her publications with Journal Intime du capitalisme, an autobiographical story about the contradictions between her convictions in matters of social justice and ecology, and her early career in the economic press acquired to neoliberalism, then Glissement de Terrain, a literary story about the fight for the defense of the Jardins ouvrières des Vertus in Aubervilliers. Throughout her texts, which mix journalistic investigation and literary writing, committed positions develop.^[15]

• 2007 : L'Inde à l’assaut du monde, Grasset, Hachette Littératures, 2009.
• 2013 : La Voiture du peuple et le sac Vuitton. L'Imaginaire des objets, Fayard.
• 2014 : La Course ou la Ville, Seuil.
• 2023 : Journal intime du capitalisme, Éditions Maurice Nadeau.
• 2024 : Glissement de terrain, Bayard Récits.