La consolante anna gavalda biography

          Anna Gavalda is a French teacher and award-winning novelist....

          Anna Gavalda

          French novelist (born )

          Anna Gavalda (born 9 December in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine)[1] is a French novelist.

          Biography

          Referred to by Voici magazine as "a distant descendant of Dorothy Parker", Anna Gavalda was born in an upper-class suburb of Paris.

          Anna Gavalda is a French novelist.

        1. Anna Gavalda is a French novelist.
        2. Anna Gavalda is a French teacher and award-winning novelist.
        3. Anna Gavalda is a French teacher and award-winning novelist.
        4. Consolation (La Consolante*) was the bestselling French novel in , with Born in , Anna Gavalda was a teacher whose collection of stories, I.
        5. Born in Paris in , Anna Gavalda published her first work in while working as a high school French teacher.

          6. She was working as a French teacher in high school when a collection of her short stories were first published in under the title Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part that met with both critical acclaim and commercial success, selling more than three-quarters of a million copies in her native France and winning the Grand prix RTL-Lire.

          The book was translated into numerous languages, including English, and sold in twenty-seven countries. It was published to acclaim in North America in as I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere. The book received much praise and is a library and school selection worldwide in several languages.

          Gavalda's first novel, Je l'aimais (Som