Lydie Salvayre

Lydie Salvayre was born in southern France in 1948. She studied literature and medicine and worked as a psychiatrist in Marseille before beginning to write in the 1970s. Her novel “La compagnie des spectres” received the Prix Novembre in 1997. In 2014, she was awarded the Prix Goncourt for “Pas pleurer” (published in German as “Weine nicht”). Her novels have been translated into numerous languages.