Agnès Martin-Lugand (born 1979) is a French novelist who gained fame with ''Les gens heureux lisent et boivent du café'' (Happy People Read and Drink Coffee) when she published it on Kindle in December 2012. By 2017, her five novels had clocked up sales of two million worldwide.

Biography

Born in

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in 1979, Martin-Lugand studied psychology and spent six years working on child protection in hospitals. She then took up writing, completing ''Les gens heureux lisent et boivent du café''. After it had been turned down by several publishers, she decided to publish a digital version herself. It became an immediate success on

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's Kindle. Noticing its popularity, the publisher Michel Lafon bought the rights and published a print edition in 2013 which sold 300,000 copies. Lafon has continued the novel's success by having it translated into 14 languages, including Portuguese, Lithuanian, Turkish and Chinese. There are now plans for the work to be filmed in Hollywood. Martin-Lugand has continued to write, publishing ''Entre mes mains le bonheur se faufile'' (2014), ''La vie est facile, ne t'inquiète pas'' (2015), ''Désolée, je suis attendue'' (2016) and ''J'ai toujours cette musique dans la tête'' (2017). Her most recent work, ''A la lumière du petit matin'' was published in 2018.

Publications in English

Two of Martin-Lugand's works have been published in English: *2016: ''Happy People Read and Drink Coffee'' *2017: ''Don't Worry, Life Is Easy''

Personal life

Martin-Lugand lives in

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with her husband and their two boys.

References

External links

Agnès Martin-Lugand's website
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