About Our Guests
Neige Sinno is a writer and translator, born in France in 1977. She lived in Mexico for 20 years and studied French, North American, and Latin American literature. She completed a doctoral thesis on contemporary North American short stories at the University of Aix-Marseille and pursued postdoctoral research at UNAM, Mexico, where she also taught literature and translation. She is the author of several works of fiction, including La vie des rats (La Tangente, 2007) and Le Camion (Christophe Lucquin, 2018), as well as the literary essay Lectores entre líneas: Roberto Bolaño, Ricardo Piglia y Sergio Pitol (Aldus, 2011), which won the Lya Kostakowsky Literary Essay Award. Published in 2023, Sad Tiger received widespread acclaim, winning numerous prestigious awards, including the 2023 Prix Femina, the Goncourt des Lycéens, the Prix Littéraire du Monde, and the Prix Les Inrockuptibles, as well as the Choix Goncourt UK in 2024.
Lauren Elkin is a writer, essayist, and translator. Her notable works include Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art and Flâneuse, which was recognised by The New York Times Book Review and was a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award. Her essays on art, literature, and culture have appeared in the London Review of Books, Harper’s Bazaar, and Le Monde, among others. An accomplished translator, she recently translated Simone de Beauvoir’s previously unpublished novel The Inseparables. Her latest novel, Scaffolding, is forthcoming. After two decades in Paris, she now resides in London.
