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Anna Gavalda

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Anna Gavalda

Anna Gavalda (born 9 December 1970 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French novelist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anna Gavalda has received more than 149,910 page views. Her biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Anna Gavalda is the 3,545th most popular writer (up from 4,034th in 2019), the 3,581st most popular biography from France (up from 3,753rd in 2019) and the 456th most popular French Writer.

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Among writers, Anna Gavalda ranks 3,545 out of 7,302. Before her are Howard Pyle, Edwin Arnold, Cotton Mather, Václav Hanka, Jien, and Jovan Sterija Popović. After her are Mikhail Zhvanetsky, Pavel Bazhov, Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko, Bertus Aafjes, Ibn Bibi, and Onomacritus.

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Anna Gavalda

French novelist (born 1970)

Anna Gavalda (born 9 December 1970 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine)[1] is a French novelist.

Biography

Referred to by Voici magazine as "a distant descendant of Dorothy Parker", Anna Gavalda was born in an upper-class suburb of Paris. She was working as a French teacher in high school when a collection of her short stories were first published in 1999 under the title Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part that met with both critical acclaim and commercial success, selling more than three-quarters of a million copies in her native France and winning the 2000 Grand prix RTL-Lire. The book was translated into numerous languages, including English, and sold in twenty-seven countries. It was published to acclaim in North America in 2003 as I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere. The book received much praise and is a library and school selection worldwide in several languages.

Gavalda's first novel, Je l'aimais (Someone I Loved) was published in France in February 2002 and later that

Gavalda, Anna 1970-

PERSONAL: Born December 9, 1970 in BoulogneBillancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France; divorced; children: two.

CAREER: Writer and journalist.

AWARDS, HONORS: Grand Prix RTL-Lirem, 2000, for I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere.

WRITINGS

Je voudrais que quelqu’un m’attende quelque part (short stories), [France] 1999, translation by Karen L. Marker published as I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere, Riverhead Books (New York, NY), 2003.

Il était une fois—l’automobile, Roger-Viollet (Paris, France), 2000.

Je l’aimais (novel), Dilettante (Paris France), 2002, translation by Catherine Evans published as Someone I Loved, Riverhead Books (New York, NY), 2005.

95 Pounds of Hope (juvenile novel), translated by Gill Rosner, Viking (New York, NY), 2003.

Ensemble, c’est tout (novel), Dilettante (Paris, France), 2004, translated by Alison Anderson as Hunting and Gathering, Chatto & Windus (London, England), 2006, Riverhead Books (New York, NY), 2007.

Contributor to periodicals, including Elle magazine. Books have also been t

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