Laurence Cossé


Laurence Cossé is a French writer, who published mainly novels.
She was first a journalist in the French newspaper Le Quotidien de Paris and then at the French public radio France Culture. Most of her novels were published by the French publishing house Gallimard. Her most famous novel to date, Le Coin du voile, was translated as A Corner of the veil in American English.
Although she published one poetic novel and one historical novel, most of her latest novels evoke the contemporary French society, often in a critical or ironical manner. She received in 2015 the "Grand Prix de littérature" of the Académie Française.

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