Valérie Valère

Valérie Valère (1 November 1961 – 17 December 1981) was a French writer.
She published her first work, the book Le Pavillon des enfants fous, in 1978 after spending four months confined to a psychiatric hospital for anorexia nervosa. The book is an autobiographical account covering her relationship with her abusive parents, experiences as a child in French society, and in particular her institutionalized years. Critics praised her style of writing and her expressive, philosophically sophisticated articulations of systemic mistreatment and misunderstanding. Scholar Richard A. Mazzara likens her work to Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Herman Hesse, André Gide, and Virginia Woolf.

• Le Pavillon des enfants fous (1978)
• Malika ou un jour comme tous les autres (1980)
• Obsession blanche (1981)