Violaine Huisman

Violaine Huisman was born in Paris in 1979 and has lived and worked in New York for the past twenty years. She is a novelist, a translator and the current Cultural Director of the FIAF in NY.

Her translations into French include David Grann’s True Crime and Ben Lerner’s The Hatred of Poetry.

Her début novel, The Book of Mother, originally published by Gallimard in France and Scribner in the US, was translated around the world. It was awarded the Prix Françoise Sagan and the Prix Marie Claire and it was selected as one of The New York Times most notable books of 2021.It is currently being adapted for the screen.

Her second novel, Rose Désert, was published in 2019 by Gallimard.

Her third novel, The Monuments of Paris, will be published by Editions Gallimard in 2024 and by Penguin Press in the US.