AUTHOR
Véronique Olmi was born in 1962 in Nice and now lives in Paris. She is a highly acclaimed French dramatist and her twelve plays have won numerous awards. Bord de Mer, published in 2001 and translated into all major European languages, was her first novel. In Germany alone her books have sold more than a hundred thousand copies.
TRANSLATOR
Adriana Hunter has translated nearly 40 books from French including works by Agnès Desarthe, Amélie Nothomb, Frédéric Beigbeder, Véronique Ovaldé and Catherine Millet and has been short-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize twice. In 2012, Adriana was awarded the Scott Moncrieff Award for her translation of Beside the Sea.