She was born at
Bruges, Gironde. Originally a freelance
journalist, she devoted herself to fiction after a stay in
Montreal. Reyes acquired notoriety with the success of her first novel,
The Butcher, which was translated into numerous languages and adapted for the theatre; like many of her subsequent novels and essays, it showed a concern with contemporary eroticism and how to treat it in
literary fiction. She now splits her time between
Paris and the
Pyrenees. ==Selected works==