Violaine Huisman (born 1979) is a French writer. Her debut novel, ''The Book of Mother'', won Prix Françoise Sagan and was longlisted for International Booker Prize.

Early life and education

Violaine Huisman was born in 1979, in Paris. Her father was the French academic

Denis Huisman Denis Huisman (13 April 1929 – 2 February 2021) was a French academic and writer. Biography Denis was born to and Marcelle Wogue in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. His family was Jewish. On 8 April 1949, he married Gisèle Cahen, who he wo ...

, her mother Catherine Cremnitz. She attended Lycée Henri-IV in Paris. When she was nineteen, she moved to the United States, where she completed her studies.

Career

Huisman has lived in New York for over two decades. She worked in publishing and translated novels. Huisman has coordinated the literary series at the

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, as well as managed multidisciplinary arts festivals. She works as an essayist and cultural journalist and has written for such publications as '' The New York Times'', '' Vogue'' and '' The Paris Review''. Huisman's debut novel ''The Book of Mother'' was published by Éditions Gallimard in 2018 and tells the story of a Parisian woman's life, told partially through the eyes of her young daughter. The novel addresses parts of the family history of Huisman, akin to

autofiction In literary criticism, autofiction is a form of fictionalized autobiography. Autofiction combines two mutually inconsistent narrative forms, namely autobiography and fiction. An author may decide to recount their life in the third person, to mod ...

. It gained various literary awards, including Prix Françoise Sagan and the Prix Marie Claire. It was also longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2022 and was included in ''The New York Times'' 100 Notable Books list.

Works

* ''Fugitive parce que reine'', 2018, English ed.: ''The Book of Mother,''

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, 2021, trans. by Leslie Camhi * ''Rose Désert'', 2019

References

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