Maylis de Kerangal is the author of several novels in French, including Je marche sous un ciel de traîne (2000), La vie voyageuse (2003), Corniche Kennedy (2008), Naissance d'un pont (translated here as Birth of a Bridge, winner of the Franz Hessel Prize and the Médicis Prize in 2010), Réparer les vivants (translated here as Mend the Living, long-listed for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize and winner of the 2017 Wellcome Book Prize) and Un monde à portée de main (2018). She lives in Paris, France.
