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Maylis de Kerangal
Biography
Maylis de Kerangal was born in Toulon in 1967. She is the descendant of a noble Breton family. In Gallo, Kerangal means house of the French speaker. She grew up in Le Havre, her father being a ship’s pilot. She studied history, ethnology and philosophy in Rouen and Paris. She worked for the children’s section of the publisher Gallimard and then spent some time in the United States with her engineer husband. She published her first novel in 2000 and then founded Éditions du Baron Perché, a publisher of children’s works. She has gone on to publish successful novels and stories.
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Maylis de Kerangal
Maylis de Kerangal: France’s Unlikely Literary Rebel
Interview
Interview
Interview
Maylis de Kerangal (in French)
Maylis de Kerangal, la force d’une plume (in French)
Bibliography
2000 Je marche sous un ciel de traîne
2003 La Vie voyageuse
2005 La Rue
2006 Ni fleurs ni couronnes
2007 Dans les rapides
2008 Corniche Kennedy [Kennedy Corniche]
2009 Femmes et sport : regards sur les athlètes, les supportrices, et les autres (with Joy Sorman)
2010 Naissance d’un pont (Birth of a Bridge)
2012 Pierre Feuille Ciseaux (photos Benoît Grimbert)
2012 Tangente vers l’est (Eastbound. )
2014 Réparer les vivants (UK: Mend the Living; US: The Heart)
2014 À ce stade de la nuit
2014 Hors-pistes (Off the Beaten Track)
2016 Un chemin de table (The Cook)
2018 Un monde à portée de main (Painting Time)
2019 Kiruna
2022 Un archipel. Fiction, récits, essais
2022 Seyvoz (with Joy Sorman)
2024 Jour de ressac
2023 Canoës (Canoes) (stories)