Maylis de Kerangal
Maylis de Kerangal spent her childhood in Le Havre, France. Her novel, Birth of a Bridge, was the winner of the Prix Franz Hessel and Prix Médicis in 2010. In 2014, her fifth novel, Mend the Living, was published to wide acclaim in France, winning the Grand Prix RTL-Lire award and the student choice novel of the year from France Culture and Télèrama. In the UK, Mend the Living was longlisted for the Booker International Prize in 2016, and won the Wellcome Book Prize in 2017 – only the second novel and the first work in translation ever to do so.
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Canoes
Seven interconnected stories orbit a central novella to create a collection of tales which resonate with the sound of women's voices. A widower struggles to…
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Painting Time
"Maylis de Kerangal conjures the same painterly realism her characters hope to achieve in paint" London Magazine "Evocative and exhilerating" Booklist "Maylis de Kerangal is…
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Birth of a Bridge
Coca, Southern California. A small town on a wild river, at the margins of the red-rocked desert and the forest where the last of the…
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Mend the Living
Winner of the Wellcome Book Prize 2017. Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016. Now a major French film, REPARER LES VIVANTS/HEAL THE LIVING,…