ANNE SERRE (b. 1960) is the author of fifteen books, as well as numerous short stories and essays, and the recipient of a 2008 Cino del Duca Foundation award. Her first novel Les Gouvernantes was praised in La Croix for ‘its remarkable economy of style and in Libération as ‘a delightful Sabbath’. From its publication in 1992, till 2000, she worked under a pseudonym as book editor of a leading magazine for women. Serre won the 2020 Goncourt de la nouvelle for her short story collection Au coeur d'un été tout en or (All in the Golden Afternoon). The Beginners (2021) was Serre’s third book to be translated into the English.
