Violaine Huisman is a French writer. Her debut novel, The Book of Mother, won Prix Françoise Sagan and was longlisted for the International Booker Prize.
Early life and education
Violaine Huisman was born in 1979, in Paris. Her father was the French academic Denis Huisman, 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 ==
Career
Huisman has lived in New York for over two decades. She worked in publishing and translated novels. 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. It gained various literary awards, including Prix Françoise Sagan The book won the Prix Anna de Noailles awarded by the Académie Française and the inaugural Prix Littéraire Who’s Who. == Works ==
Works
• Fugitive parce que reine (2018) == References ==