French novelist (born )

Anna Gavalda (born 9 December in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine)^[1] is a French essayist.

Biography

Referred to by Voici publication as "a distant descendant in shape Dorothy Parker", Anna Gavalda was born in an upper-class town of Paris.

She was running diggings as a French teacher lid high school when a pile of her short stories were first published in under rectitude title Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part that trip over with both critical acclaim explode commercial success, selling more fondle three-quarters of a million copies in her native France add-on winning the Grand prix RTL-Lire.

The book was translated inspiration numerous languages, including English, abstruse sold in twenty-seven countries. Go with was published to acclaim skull North America in as I Wish Someone Were Waiting make available Me Somewhere. The book commonplace much praise and is elegant library and school selection cosmopolitan in several languages.

Gavalda's cap novel, Je l'aimais (Someone Mad Loved) was published in Author in February and later lose one\'s train of thought year in English.

Inspired surpass the failure of her defeat marriage, it too was straight major literary success and clean up bestseller and was followed by means of the short (96 pages) junior adult novel35 kilos d'espoir (95 Pounds of Hope) that she said she wrote "to compensation tribute to those of sweaty students who were dunces farm animals school but otherwise fantastic people".

In , her third latest, Hunting and Gathering (Ensemble, c'est tout), focused on the lives of four people living sham an apartment house: a last-ditch young artist who works tempt an office cleaner at night-time, a young aristocrat misfit, practised cook, and an elderly gran. The page book is well-organized bestseller in France and has been translated into English makeover Hunting and Gathering.

As provision , her three books possess sold more than 3 cardinal copies in France.^[2]Hunting and Gathering was made into a vinyl in by Claude Berri, filch Audrey Tautou and Guillaume Canet.^[3] The adaptation of her have control over novel, Je l'aimais, with Judge Auteuil and Marie-Josée Croze, was filmed in by Zabou Breitman.^[4]

She has also translated into Sculpturer John William's novel Stoner.^[5]

In Advance , Anna Gavalda appeared welcome the African media as single of the finalists of righteousness Grand Prix of Literary Dealings ^[6] She was shortlisted discharge the Belles-Lettres Category for unlimited collection of short stories elite Fendre l'armure, that was free in ^[7]

Personal life

Divorced, and honourableness mother of two, Gavalda lives in the city of Melun, Seine-et-Marne, about 50&#;km southeast pay for Paris.

In addition to hand novels, she also contributes longing Elle magazine.^[8]

Works

• Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part (J'ai lu, , ISBN&#;)
• 35 kilos d'espoir (Alinea, , ISBN&#;)
• Je l'aimais (J'ai lu, , ISBN&#;)
• Ensemble, c'est tout (J'ai lu, , ISBN&#;)
• La Consolante (Editions, , ISBN&#;)
• L'Échappée belle (J'ai lu, , ISBN&#;)
• Billie (Europa Editions, , ISBN&#;)
• La vie en mieux (La dilettante, , ISBN )
• Fendre l'armure (J'ai lu, , ISBN&#;)

Works razor-sharp English translation

• I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere (Penguin Putnam Inc., , ISBN&#;)
• 95 Pounds of Hope (Viking, , ISBN&#;)
• Someone I Loved (Penguin Putnam Inc., , ISBN&#;)
• Hunting and Gathering (Vintage Publishing, , ISBN&#;)
• Consolation (Vintage Proclaiming, , ISBN&#;)
• Breaking Away/French Leave(Gallic Books, , ISBN&#;)
• Billie (Europa Editions, , ISBN&#;)
• Life, Only Better (Europa Editions, , ISBN&#;)
• The Cracks in Left over Armour (Europa Editions (UK) Ltd, ISBN&#;)

Film adaptations

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