Alice Zeniter

Her second novel, Jusque dans nos bras, was published in 2010 and translated into English as Take This Man. Her novel, L'Art de Perdre, won multiple prizes and awards. It was published in English in 2021 as The Art of Losing, for which she won the Dublin Literary Award along with its translator Frank Wynne.

Alice Zeniter studied at École Normale Supérieure. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is literary activity, translating activity and translation from English. Distinctions recorded are Prix Renaudot des lycéens, Prix du Livre Inter, Liste Goncourt: le choix polonais and Prix Goncourt des Lycéens.

• Name — Alice Zeniter • Born — 1986 • Birthplace — Clamart, France • Education — École Normale Supérieure • Years Active — 2003–present • Notable Works — * Juste avant l'Oubli • L'Art de Perdre

Zeniter was born in Clamart, to an Algerian father and a French mother. She was raised in Champfleur and lived there until she was 17. She continued her studies in Alençon. From 2006 until 2011 she was a student at École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

• Take this man, New York: Europa, 2012., • The Art of Losing, (translated by Frank Wynne) London: Picador (imprint), 2021; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.

• Deux moins un égal zéro, Nantes, France, Éditions du Petit Véhicule, coll. « Plaine Page », 2003, 112 p. • Jusque dans nos bras, Paris, Albin Michel, 2010, 236 p. • Prix littéraire de la Porte Dorée 2010 • Prix littéraire Laurence Trân 2011 • Sombre Dimanche, Paris, Albin Michel, 2013, 236 p. • Prix de la Closerie des Lilas 2013 • Prix du Livre Inter 2013 • Prix des lecteurs de l'Express 2013 • Juste avant l'Oubli, Flammarion, 2015, • Prix Renaudot des lycéens 2015 • L'Art de Perdre, Flammarion, 2017., • Prix Goncourt des lycéens 2017 • Prix littéraire du Monde 2017 • Prix Landerneau des lecteurs 2017 • Prix des libraires de Nancy • Prix Liste Goncourt: le choix polonais, Cracovie, 2017 • Prix Liste Goncourt: le choix de la Suisse 2017 • Finaliste Prix Goncourt 2017 • Dublin Literary Award • Comme un empire dans un empire, Flammarion, 2020., • Frapper l’épopée, Flammarion, 2024, 317p.

• Spécimens humains avec monstres, 2011 • Hansel et Gretel, Editions Acte Sud, 2018

• I love Dick, Chris Kraus, Editions Flammarion, 2016

• Fever, 2014