Violaine Huisman

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Violaine Huisman


Born
France

Violaine Huisman was born in Paris in 1979 and has lived and worked in New York for twenty years, where she ran the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s literary series and also organized multidisciplinary arts festivals across the city. Originally published by Gallimard under the title Fugitive parce que reine, her debut novel The Book of Mother was awarded multiple literary prizes including the Prix Françoise Sagan and the Prix Marie Claire.

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De la liberté

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The Book of Mother

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3.79 avg rating — 2,564 ratings — published 2018 — 28 editions
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Report on Myself

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Les Impardonnables

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Un crime parfait

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Rose désert

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Les monuments de Paris

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The Monuments of Paris: A N...

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“The truth of a life is the fiction that sustains it.”
Violaine Huisman, The Book of Mother

“The biographical elements that served as her history, or her mythology even, didn’t need to be accurate in order to be true. They really took place in her past as she recalled it. The truth of a life is the fiction that sustains it.”
Violaine Huisman, The Book of Mother

“But if there are two things in this world that one can safely say are imperfect, that inevitably fall short, they are love and language. Words—besmirched by centuries of misuse, worn out by clichés, arbitrary—are always traitors.”
Violaine Huisman, The Book of Mother



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