Maylis de Kerangal is a French writer born in 1967 in Toulon. Her father was a ship’s pilot and her grandfather a sea captain, which has left its mark on her work. She studied history, philosophy, and ethnology in Paris. She is the author of numerous novels, short story collections, novellas, and narratives, including: In 2008, she wrote Corniche Kennedy, a luminous work about youth in Marseille. In 2010, her novel Naissance d’un pont won the Prix Médicis. It explores the construction of a gigantic bridge and the lives of those involved in this colossal project. She is also the author of Réparer les vivants (2014), a novel that won several literary awards, including the Prix Orange du Livre, the Grand Prix RTL-Lire in France, and the Wellcome Book Prize in the United Kingdom. It tells the story of a young man who died in a car accident and the chain of events that follows, involving organ transplantation. In 2021, she contributed to an anthology in support of the International Prison Observatory, titled Pour que droits et dignité ne s’arrêtent pas au pied des murs. Jour de ressac (2024) is a novel that immerses the reader in the memories and emotions associated with the city of Le Havre, where the author grew up. That same year, she was nominated for the Fnac Novel Prize and the Goncourt Prize for High School Students. Her work is marked by the influence of places, the theme of landscape, archaeology, the use of documents and investigative techniques, and the motif of the double. She is interested in the world of work, the futures of young people, the human voice, and the presence of ghosts.