Hélène Cixous

Hélène Cixous is a French writer, playwright and literary critic. During her academic career, she was primarily associated with the Centre universitaire de Vincennes, which she co-founded in 1969 and where she created the first centre of women's studies at a European university. Known for her experimental writing style and great versatility as a writer and thinker, she has written more than seventy books dealing with multiple genres: theatre, literary and feminist theory, art criticism, autobiography and poetic fiction.

5 June 1937

Born on the same birth day (5 June): Bernard de Pourtalès • Cornelius Ryan • Ekaterina Bychkova • James Connolly • Joazhiño Arroe • John Carlos • Kathleen Kennedy (producer) • Mary Kay Bergman • Paweł Kotla • Peter Wtewael • Radko Gudas • Roy Higgins (jockey) • Russ Ortiz • Sid Barnes • Sébastien Lefebvre • Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo • Vernon Gholston • Yogi Adityanath

Born in the same month (June 1937): Chris Blackwell • Derek Foster, Baron Foster of Bishop Auckland • Eleanor Holmes Norton • Fernand Labrie • Gorilla Monsoon • Jean-Pierre Jaussaud • Jerry Keller • Klaus Basikow • Larry Henley • Pierre Billon (writer) • Robert Coleman Richardson • Ron Luciano • Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha • Stafford Dean • Vitaly Zholobov • Vladimir Arnold