Maylis de Kerangal

Maylis de Kerangal
Maylis de Kerangal in 2010.
Born	(1967-06-16) 16 June 1967 Toulon, France
Nationality	French
Occupation	Writer

Maylis de Kerangal (born 16 June 1967) is a French author.

Life and career

Raised in Le Havre, Maylis de Kerangal went on to study history and philosophy in Rouen and Paris. She worked at Paris-based Éditions Gallimard (children and youth department, from 1991 to 1996), then travelled in the United States, and went back to studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.

She wrote her first novel in 2000, and from that moment on became a full-time writer. Her celebrated novel, Birth of a Bridge, (Naissance d'un pont, 2010) presents a literary saga of a handful of men and women who are charged with building a bridge somewhere in a mythical California. Birth of a Bridge was short-listed for the Prix Goncourt, and awarded both the Prix Médicis in 2010 and the Premio Gregor von Rezzori in 2014 and has been translated into several languages worldwide.

Mend the Living (Réparer les vivants, 2014), published in the UK, has also won several prizes including the Prix Orange du Livre and the Grand prix RTL du livre in France, and the 2017 Wellcome Book Prize (UK). Mend the Living was adapted for the stage at the theatre festival in Avignon, receiving rave reviews for its intimate look at the realities and philosophical questioning around organ donation. It was adapted into the film Heal the Living in 2016. A second English-language translation of the novel, entitled The Heart, was published in the US in 2017.

Works

Novels

• Je marche sous un ciel de traîne, Paris, Éditions Verticales, 2000, 222 p. ISBN 9782843350641
• La Vie voyageuse, Paris, Éditions Verticales, 2003, 240 p. ISBN 978-2843351617
• Ni fleurs ni couronnes, Paris, Éditions Verticales, 2006, 135 p. ISBN 9782070777204
• Dans les rapides, Paris, Éditions Naïve, coll. « Naïve sessions », 2007, 111 p. ISBN 978-2350210865
• Corniche Kennedy, Paris, Éditions Verticales, 2008, 177 p. ISBN 9782070122196
• Naissance d'un pont, Paris, Éditions Verticales, 2010, 320 p. ISBN 978-2070130504
  • Awards: Prix Médicis 2010; Prix Franz Hessel 2010; Premio Gregor von Rezzori 2014
  • Translation: Birth of a Bridge, tr. Jessica Moore, Talonbooks, Vancouver, 2014. ISBN 978-0889228894
• Tangente vers l'est, Paris, Éditions Verticales, 2012, 134 p. ISBN 9782070136742
  • Award: Prix Landerneau 201217
• Réparer les vivants, Paris, Éditions Verticales, 2013, 281 p. ISBN 9782070144136
  • Awards: Grand prix RTL-Lire 2014; Prix France Culture/Télérama 2014; Prix Orange du Livre 2014.
  • Translations:
    • Mend the Living, tr. Jessica Moore, Maclehose, UK and Talonbooks, Vancouver, February 2016. ISBN 978-0-88922-973-0
      • Award; Winner of the Wellcome Book Prize, 2017
    • The Heart: A Novel, tr. Sam Taylor, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, February 2016. ISBN 978-0-374-24090-5
• à ce stade de la nuit, Paris, Éditions Verticales, 2014, 74 p. ISBN 978.2.07.010754.4
• Un chemin de tables, Seuil - Raconter la vie, 2016, 105 p. ISBN 9782370210753
  • Translation: The Cook: A Novel, tr. Sam Taylor, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, March 2019. ISBN 9780374120900

External links

• Maylis de Kerangal by Jessica Moore Bomb