Marie Darrieussecq was born in 1969 in Bayonne, France. Her debut novel, Pig Tales, was published in thirty-four countries and became the most popular first novel in France since the 1950s. Her second novel, My Phantom Husband, became an immediate bestseller. Her third novel, Breathing Underwater, prompted Francis Gilbert in The Times to declare that ‘there are very few writers who may have changed my perception of the world, but Darrieussecq is one of them’. Two other novels have also been translated into English, A Brief Stay with the Living, and White. Tom is Dead was on the bestseller charts in France for a long time and was nominated for the two prestigious French prizes, the Prix Fémina and the Prix Goncourt. Marie Darrieussecq now lives in Paris with her husband and children.
Books by Marie Darrieussecq
