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{{short description|French author (born 1963)}}
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[[file:Corinne MAIER.jpg|thumb|300px|Maier in 2014]]
'''Corinne Maier''' (born 7 December 1963) is a Swiss-born, French psychoanalyst, economist, and best-selling writer. She is best known for being the author of ''[[Bonjour paresse]]'', a [[Cynicism (contemporary)|cynical]] [[critique]] of French [[organizational culture|corporate culture]]. In 2016, Maier was named as one of the [[100 Women (BBC)|BBC 100 Women]].

==Biography==
Maier was born on 7 December 1963 in [[Geneva]], Switzerland.

She attended [[Sciences Po|National Foundation of Political Sciences]], studying economics and international relations, later earning a doctorate in [[psychoanalysis]]. The author of ''[[Bonjour paresse]]'' [''Hello Laziness''], Maier is a [[satirist]] who has been compared to [[Scott Adams]].<ref name="Johnson2004">{{cite news|last1=Johnson|first1=Jo|title=The slacker's new bible|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5698558/ns/business-financial_times/t/slackers-new-bible/#.WEhTqZJOGfQ|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160113142604/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5698558/ns/business-financial_times/t/slackers-new-bible/#.WEhTqZJOGfQ|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 January 2016|accessdate=7 December 2016|work=[[NBC]]|date=16 August 2004}}</ref>
She became employed by [[Électricité de France]] as an economist {{circa}} 1992.<ref name="Smith2004">{{cite news|last1=Smith|first1=Craig S.|title=A French Employee's Work Celebrates the Sloth Ethic|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/14/world/a-french-employee-s-work-celebrates-the-sloth-ethic.html?_r=0|accessdate=7 December 2016|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=14 August 2004}}</ref> In 2004, she wrote ''Bonjour paresse'', which reached the number one ranking on [[Amazon.com|Amazon]]'s French-language bestseller list.<ref name="Johnson2004" /> In 2016, she was chosen as one of [[100 Women (BBC)|BBC's 100 Women]].<ref name="bbc.com">{{cite web|title=BBC 100 Women 2016: Who is on the list?|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-38012048|publisher=[[BBC]]|accessdate=7 December 2016|date=21 November 2016}}</ref>

Maier is jewish and the mother of two children, a son and a daughter.<ref name=bbc>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37992503 |title=Viewpoint: Changing the world is more important than changing nappies |work=BBC News |date=26 November 2016 |accessdate=2021-12-11}}</ref>

==Selected works==
* 2004, [[Hello laziness!: why hard work doesn't pay|Hello laziness! : why hard work doesn't pay]], non-fiction, Orion (GB); 2005, Bonjour Laziness, Pantheon (USA), 2007;
* 2009, No kids, 40 reasons not to have children, non-fiction, Mcclelland & Steward (Canada);
* 2013, Freud, an illustrated biography (scenario), Nobrow (GB);
* 2014, Marx, an illustrated biography (scenario), Nobrow (GB);
* 2016, Einstein, an illustrated biography (scenario), Nobrow (GB)
* 2017, Marx, Freud, Einstein, Heroes of the mind, Nobrow (GB)
* 2021, The Conquest of the red man (novel), Wrecking Ball Press (GB).

==References==
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==External links==
*{{commons category-inline|Corinne Maier}}
*[https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Corinne_Maier Corinne Maier] at Wikiquote (in French)
*[https://www.corinnemaier.info/ Official website] (in French)
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