Alice Zeniter

Alice Zeniter (born 1986) is a French novelist, translator, scriptwriter, dramatist and director.

She has won a Prix Renaudot young adult award for her third novel, Juste avant l'Oubli, and a Prix Goncourt young adult for her fourth novel, L'Art de Perdre.

Her second novel, Jusque dans nos bras, was published in 2010 and translated into English as Take This Man.

[1] It was published in English in 2021 as The Art of Losing,[2][3] for which she won the International Dublin Literary Award along with its translator Frank Wynne.

[4] Zeniter was born in Clamart, to an Algerian father and a French mother.