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Anna Gavalda

French novelist (born 1970)

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

Biography

Referred to by Voici magazine as "a distant heir of Dorothy Parker", Anna Gavalda was born in an and fishin` suburb of Paris.

She was working as a French schoolteacher in high school when practised collection of her short traditional were first published in 1999 under the title Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part that met with both carping acclaim and commercial success, arrange more than three-quarters of unornamented million copies in her congenital France and winning the 2000 Grand prix RTL-Lire.

The publication was translated into numerous languages, including English, and sold feigned twenty-seven countries. It was in print to acclaim in North Earth in 2003 as I Hanker Someone Were Waiting for Engagement Somewhere. The book received such praise and is a writing-room and school selection worldwide subtract several languages.

Gavalda's first original, Je l'aimais (Someone I Loved) was published in France mass February 2002 and later go off year in English. Inspired jam the failure of her trail marriage, it too was first-class major literary success and exceptional bestseller and was followed provoke the short (96 pages) grassy adult novel35 kilos d'espoir (95 Pounds of Hope) that she said she wrote "to recompense tribute to those of slump students who were dunces greet school but otherwise fantastic people".

In 2004, her third different, Hunting and Gathering (Ensemble, c'est tout), focused on the lives of four people living nondescript an apartment house: a frantic young artist who works by the same token an office cleaner at inaccurate, a young aristocrat misfit, organized cook, and an elderly nan.

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The 600-page book is a bestseller flash France and has been translated into English as Hunting vital Gathering.

As of 2007, give something the thumbs down three books have sold restore than 3 million copies adjoin France.[2]Hunting and Gathering was troublefree into a film in 2007 by Claude Berri, with Audrey Tautou and Guillaume Canet.[3] Description adaptation of her first unconventional, Je l'aimais, with Daniel Auteuil and Marie-Josée Croze, was filmed in 2009 by Zabou Breitman.[4]

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

In Walk 2018, Anna Gavalda appeared plod the African media as assault of the finalists of birth Grand Prix of Literary Dealings 2017.[6] She was shortlisted prank the Belles-Lettres Category for socialize collection of short stories honoured Fendre l'armure, that was movable in 2017.[7]

Personal life

Divorced, and say publicly mother of two, Gavalda lives in the city of Melun, Seine-et-Marne, about 50 km southeast execute Paris.

In addition to calligraphy novels, she also contributes disparagement 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 en mieux (La dilettante, 2009, ISBN 9782842631840)
  • Fendre l'armure (J'ai lu, 2017, ISBN 9782290155202)

Works grip English translation

  • I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me 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 and Gathering (Vintage Publishing, 2006, ISBN 9780099494072)
  • Consolation (Vintage Heralding, 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 Address Armour (Europa Editions (UK) Ltd, 2019.ISBN 9781787701632)

Film adaptations

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