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Alice Zeniter


Born
Clamart, France
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Alice Zeniter is a French novelist, translator, scriptwriter, dramatist and director.

She has won a Prix Renaudot young adult award for her third novel, Juste avant l'Oubli, and a Prix Goncourt young adult for her fourth novel, L'Art de Perdre.

Zeniter published her first novel, Deux moins un égal zéro, at the age of 16. Her second novel, Jusque dans nos bras, was published in 2010 and translated in English as Take This Man.

Her latest novel, L'Art de Perdre, won multiple prizes and awards.
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L'Art de perdre

4.38 avg rating — 8,963 ratings — published 2017 — 49 editions
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Je suis une fille sans hist...

4.10 avg rating — 831 ratings — published 2021 — 8 editions
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Comme un empire dans un empire

3.26 avg rating — 804 ratings — published 2020 — 7 editions
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Frapper l'épopée

3.45 avg rating — 537 ratings4 editions
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Toute une moitié du monde

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Sombre dimanche

3.58 avg rating — 356 ratings — published 2013 — 12 editions
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Kes neid jõuaks lahuta (Loo...

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Juste avant l'oubli

3.27 avg rating — 338 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions
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Home Sweet Home

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Edène

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“Ce qu'on ne transmet pas, ça se perd, c'est tout. Tu viens d'ici mais ce n'est pas chez toi.”
Alice Zeniter, L'Art de perdre

“The villagers waver between exaltation and fear. Exaltation because everyone here believes that the French have no right to what the mountain lands offer to the Kabyles. Fear because of the word ‘we’, used so casually by this man that no one here has ever seen.”
Alice Zeniter, L'Art de perdre

“The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn’t hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaster. I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or next-to-last, of three loved houses went. The art of losing isn’t hard to master. I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.”
Alice Zeniter, The Art of Losing

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