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Anne Bert (March 15, 1958 - October 2, 2017) was a French writer. She was born in Bordeaux and died in Belgium.

Biography
Anne Bert accumulated a variety of experiences and jobs before she was appointed to the role of official receiver for the protection of adults, an activity she continued until 2003.

Literature
Following the publication of her first collection of erotic short stories in 2009, L'Eau à la bouche, Bert devoted herself to literature and related activities (i.e., conferences, radio-shows). She contributed regularly to Salon littéraire, an online literary criticism site.

In June 2015, she took charge of a new literary collection from Numériklivres called L'Intime.

One of her short stories, Maudite Attraction, taken from the collection L'Eau à la bouche, inspired Sylvain Groud for his triptych Trois sacres, a three-part re-interpretation of Sacre du printemps by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. The show was performed on October 14 and 15 in 2016 at theThéâtre Sénart. The text was read by Franco-Argentinian actress Bérénice Bejo.

Eroticism
Anne Bert is frequently presented as an author of erotic texts due to being published by Éditions Blanche and Éditions Tabou, two publishing companies who specialize in erotic literature and eroticism. She defines herself more as an author of the "intimate" with a keen for those excluded from society. This approach is evident in her first novel, Perle, which imposed itself with such a force that it dominated the other short stories in the collection S'inventer un autre jour.

Illness and the fight to choose to end her life
In September 2015, Anne Bert learned that she hadamyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a neurological condition also known as Charcot's disease. Her diagnosis was made public on January 2, 2016. From then on, she was engaged in a debate around the right to die. Thus, on January 15, 2017, she sent an open letter to presidential candidates in which she called for "the right to choose to end one's life" and supported online petitions for the legalization of assisted death.

At the beginning of September 2017, she announced her plans to travel to Belgium to be euthanized,. On October 2, 2017, she was given a lethal injection in the palliative care department of a Belgian hospital on October 2, 2017,. Her book Le Tout dernier été, chronicled her last summer in her home in Charente Maritime and was published on October 4, 2017, two days after her death. The novel was a rebellious testimony but also "an ode to the world's splendor she would soon leave behind" .I love life too much to let myself die.

Works

 * L'Eau à la bouche, Éditions Blanche, 2009 ISBN 978-2-84628-214-7
 * Perle, Hors collection, 2011 ISBN 978-2-25809-124-5
 * L'Emprise des femmes, 2012, Éditions Tabou, ISBN 978-2-36326-000-0
 * Épilogue, 2013, Éditions Edicool ISBN 978-2-919645-26-8
 * S'inventer un autre jour, 2013, Éditions Tabou ISBN 978-2-36326-016-1
 * Que sais-je du rouge à son cou ?, 2016, Éditions Numériklivres ISBN 978-2-89717-804-8
 * Le Tout dernier été, 2017, Éditions Fayard ISBN 978-2-21370-552-1