Diversity of voices, diversity of languages : one week of events and readings in Lyon and in the Rhône-Alpes region.
Rachel Cusk
© Adrian Clarke
WRITER
Canada
Born into an English family in Canada in 1967, Rachel Cusk spent part of her childhood in Los Angeles before she returned to England to finish school in Cambridge then study English literature at Oxford. She has worked for a London literary agent and traveled extensively in Spain and Central America.
In 1993 she published her first novel, Saving Agnès, for which she received the Whitebread first novel award. Her openly feminist essay on the experience of motherhood, A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother (not translated) was widely praised by critics. In 2003, she was among Granta’s twenty “Best of Young British Novelists”. Since 2007, Editions de L’Olivier has published French translations of her novels, which explore issues of family, life's transformations, and the ties that bind us to those who are dear to us.
