Maylis de Kerangal 

Maylis de Kerangal spent her childhood in Le Havre, France, and now lives in Paris. Her novel Naissance d’un pont won the Prix Franz Hessel and Prix Médicis in 2010, and was published in English as Birth of a Bridge. In 2014, her fifth novel Réparer les vivants was published to wide acclaim in France, winning the Grand Prix RTL-Lire award and the student choice novel of the year from France Culture and Télérama. In the UK, Mend the Living was longlisted for the Booker International Prize in 2016, and won the Wellcome Book Prize in 2017 – only the second novel and the first work in translation ever to do so. It was also one of the Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Fiction Works of 2016. Un chemin de tables, translated as The Cook, was published in the UK and the US in 2019 and reviewed in the New York Times. Her 2018 novel Un monde à portée de main, published in English as Painting Time, was published in 2021 and was listed as one of the Guardian’s most anticipated books of the year. Her short story collection Canoes was published in the UK by MacLehose Press in 2023.