Agnès Desarthe

Agnès Desarthe was born in 1966. A novelist, she has published among others: Un secret sans importance (Prix du livre Inter 1996), Dans la nuit brune (prix Renaudot des lycéens 2010) or Une partie de chasse, as well as many works for young people. She has also published an essay on Virginia Woolf with Geneviève Brisac, V.W. Le mélange des genres and an autobiographical essay Comment j’ai appris à lire (Stock, 2013). Ce cœur changeant (L’Olivier, 2015), won the prix littéraire du Monde and La chance de leur vie (L’Olivier, 2018) was a great bestseller.