Agnès Desarthe
Author
Agnès Desarthe is the author
of nine novels for adults in her native French, many of which have been
translated to critical acclaim, most notably Chez Moi, The Foundling, and Five
Photos of My Wife, which was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction
Prize and the Jewish Quarterly Fiction Prize. Her books have been featured in
The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, The Telegraph, The Independent, Kirkus
Reviews, and many other places. She is also the translator for several authors,
including Cynthia Ozick, Jay McInerney, and Virginia Woolf. She lives
in France.