Viviane Forrester (29 September 1925, Paris – 30 April 2013) was an essayist, novelist, journalist and literary critic.
Born Viviane Dreyfus in a French Jewish family, after wartime exile she married Simon Stoloff, with whom she had two sons.
She became famous internationally with her books on Virginia Woolf (Prix Goncourt 2009)[2] and on politics.
In L'horreur économique and Une étrange dictature she criticized the globalisation of capitalism.
These international bestsellers in particular attacked the free market dogma and the resulting alienation and misfortunes for the unemployed.