Agnès Martin-Lugand

Agnès Martin-Lugand (born 1979) is a French novelist who gained fame with Les gens heureux lisent et boivent du café (Happy People Read and Drink Coffee) when she published it on Kindle in December 2012.

[2] Born in Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine in 1979, Martin-Lugand studied psychology and spent six years working on child protection in hospitals.

She then took up writing, completing Les gens heureux lisent et boivent du café.

Lafon has continued the novel's success by having it translated into 14 languages,[3] including Portuguese, Lithuanian, Turkish and Chinese.

[2] Martin-Lugand has continued to write, publishing Entre mes mains le bonheur se faufile (2014), La vie est facile, ne t'inquiète pas (2015), Désolée, je suis attendue (2016) and J'ai toujours cette musique dans la tête (2017).