Books By Claire Berest - Author

CLAIRE BEREST is a writer from Paris. In 2019, her novel Rien n'est noir about the life of Frida Kahlo won Elle's Grand Prix des lectrices. With her sister Anne, she is also the author of Gabriële, a critically-acclaimed biography of her great-grandmother, Gabriële Buffet-Picabia, Marcel Duchamp's lover and muse. She is the great-granddaughter of the painter Francis Picabia.

SOPHIE LEWIS is a literary editor and translator from French and Portuguese into English. She has translated works by Jules Verne, Marcel Aymé, Violette Leduc, Leïla Slimani and João Gilberto Noll, among others. Her translations have been shortlisted for the Scott Moncrieff and Republic of Consciousness prizes, and longlisted for the International Booker Prize.