Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam

Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam was born in 1966 in Marseille. She has published twelve novels and two plays with P. O. L. Editeur, three under the pseudonym Rebecca Lighieri. She is a founding member of the interdisciplinary association Autres et Pareils and codirector of Éditions Contre-Pied. Arcadia, her first book in translation, won the Prix du Livre Inter; was shortlisted for the Prix Femina, Prix Médicis, and Prix de Flore; and longlisted for the Prix France-Culture and Prix Wepler. She lives in Paris.