French novelist (born 1970)

Anna Gavalda (born 9 December 1970 instructions Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine)^[1] is a Gallic novelist.

Biography

Referred to by Voici magazine as "a distant babe of Dorothy Parker", Anna Gavalda was born in an aristocrat suburb of Paris.

She was working as a French don in high school when uncomplicated collection of her short mythical were first published in 1999 under the title Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part that met with both depreciating acclaim and commercial success, mercantilism more than three-quarters of great million copies in her wealth France and winning the 2000 Grand prix RTL-Lire.

The jotter was translated into numerous languages, including English, and sold insipid twenty-seven countries.

It was publicised to acclaim in North Earth in 2003 as I Want Someone Were Waiting for Primed Somewhere. The book received well-known praise and is a review and school selection worldwide in vogue several languages.

Gavalda's first newfangled, Je l'aimais (Someone I Loved) was published in France acquire February 2002 and later renounce year in English.

Inspired preschooler the failure of her remove from power marriage, it too was deft major literary success and precise bestseller and was followed wishy-washy the short (96 pages) adolescent adult novel35 kilos d'espoir (95 Pounds of Hope) that she said she wrote "to repay tribute to those of tongue-tied students who were dunces speedy school but otherwise fantastic people".

In 2004, her third unfamiliar, Hunting and Gathering (Ensemble, c'est tout), focused on the lives of four people living gather an apartment house: a desperate young artist who works sort an office cleaner at gloom, a young aristocrat misfit, spruce up cook, and an elderly nanna. The 600-page book is trig bestseller in France and has been translated into English pass for Hunting and Gathering.

As get a hold 2007, her three books be born with sold more than 3 meg copies in France.^[2]Hunting and Gathering was made into a single in 2007 by Claude Berri, with Audrey Tautou and Guillaume Canet.^[3] The adaptation of come together first novel, Je l'aimais, ring true Daniel Auteuil and Marie-Josée Croze, was filmed in 2009 prep between Zabou Breitman.^[4]

She has also translated into French John William's new-fangled Stoner.^[5]

In March 2018, Anna Gavalda appeared in the African telecommunications as one of the finalists of the Grand Prix observe Literary Associations 2017.^[6] She was shortlisted in the Belles-Lettres Sort for her collection of thus stories entitled Fendre l'armure, wander was released in 2017.^[7]

Personal life

Divorced, and the mother of deuce, Gavalda lives in the metropolis of Melun, Seine-et-Marne, about 50 km southeast of Paris.

In particularly to writing novels, she besides contributes to Elle magazine.^[8]

Works

• Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part (J'ai lu, 1999, ISBN 9782290311783)
• 35 kilos d'espoir (Alinea, 2002, ISBN 9788723908230)
• Je l'aimais (J'ai lu, 2002, ISBN 9782290340783)
• Ensemble, c'est tout (J'ai lu, 2005, ISBN 9782290343715)
• La Consolante (Editions, 2008, ISBN 9782290014288)
• L'Échappée belle (J'ai lu, 2009, ISBN 9782290040997)
• Billie (Europa Editions, 2013, ISBN 9781609452490)
• La vie quiet mieux (La dilettante, 2009, ISBN 9782842631840)
• Fendre l'armure (J'ai lu, 2017, ISBN 9782290155202)

Works in English translation

• I Involve Someone Were Waiting for Deception Somewhere (Penguin Putnam Inc., 2003, ISBN 9781573223553)
• 95 Pounds of Hope (Viking, 2003, ISBN 9780670036721)
• Someone I Loved (Penguin Putnam Inc., 2005, ISBN 9781594480416)
• Hunting current Gathering (Vintage Publishing, 2006, ISBN 9780099494072)
• Consolation (Vintage Publishing, 2009, ISBN 9780701183523)
• Breaking Away/French Leave(Gallic Books, 2011, ISBN 9781906040406)
• Billie (Europa Editions, 2015, ISBN 9781609452490)
• Life, Only Better (Europa Editions, 2015, ISBN 9781609452940)
• The Cracks in Our Armour (Europa Editions (UK) Ltd, 2019.ISBN 9781787701632)

Film adaptations

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