« Le Monde relancé à chaque phrase » : Entretien avec Maylis de Kerangal

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Hannah Freed-Thall

Maylis de Kerangal is a writer. Her short stories and novels include Corniche Kennedy (2008); Naissance d’un pont (2010, awarded the prix Médicis and the prix Franz Hessel); and Réparer les vivants (2014), which was translated into thirty-five languages, adapted for film and theater, and awarded many literary prizes, including the Grand Prix du livre RTL-LIRE and the prix du Roman de l’Étudiant France Culture-Télérama. In 2014, she also published À ce stade de la nuit, followed by Un chemin de table (2016) and Un monde à portée de main (2018). She is a member of the collective Inculte. She lives and works in Paris.

Hannah Freed-Thall is Assistant Professor of French Literature, Thought, and Culture at NYU. Her first book, Spoiled Distinctions: Aesthetics and the Ordinary in French Modernism (Oxford UP, 2015), was awarded the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies and the Modernist Studies Prize for a First Book. She is currently completing a book titled The Beach Effect.

Thangam Ravindranathan

Thangam Ravindranathan is Associate Professor of French Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Là où je ne suis pas. Récits de dévoyage (PU de Vincennes, 2012) and co-author of Donner le change. L’Impensé animal (with Antoine Traisnel; Hermann, 2016). Her forthcoming book, Behold an Animal: Four Exorbitant Readings, will be published by Northwestern UP in 2020.