AUTHOR
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VICTOR JESTIN is a twenty-six-year-old writer and screenwriter who grew up in northwestern France and now lives in Paris. Heatwave is his debut novel. Originally published by Flammarion under the title La chaleur, it won the Prix Femina des Lycéens and was nominated for the Prix Médicis and Prix Renaudot.
TRANSLATOR
SAM TAYLOR grew up in England, spent a decade in France, and now lives in the United States. He is the author of four novels and the award-winning translator of more than sixty books from the French, including Laurent Binet’s HHhH, Leïla Slimani’s The Perfect Nanny, and Maylis de Kerangal’s The Heart.
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