Cloe Mehdi was born in 1992. She started writing in college to make the time pass faster. There followed Monstres en cavale, her first novel, which received the 2014 Beaune Prize. Nothing Is Lost was awarded multiple awards, including the 2016 Polar Student Prize, the 2017 Dora Suarez Prize, the 2017 Mystere de la critique Prize, the Blues & Polar prize, and the Thousand and One Black Leaves Prize.
