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Violaine Huisman
Violaine Huisman (born 1979) is a French writer. Her debut novel, ''The Book of Mother'', won Prix Françoise Sagan and was longlisted for International Booker Prize. Early life and education Violaine Huisman was born in 1979, in Paris. Her father was the French academic Denis Huisman, her mother Catherine Cremnitz. She attended Lycée Henri-IV in Paris. When she was nineteen, she moved to the United States, where she completed her studies. Career Huisman has lived in New York for over two decades. She worked in publishing and translated novels. Huisman has coordinated the literary series at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, as well as managed multidisciplinary arts festivals. She works as an essayist and cultural journalist and has written for such publications as ''The New York Times'', ''Vogue (magazine), Vogue'' and ''The Paris Review''. Huisman's debut novel ''The Book of Mother'' was published by Éditions Gallimard in 2018 and tells the story of a Parisian woman's life, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the List of cities proper by population density, 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, Fashion capital, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called Caput Mundi#Paris, the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France Regions of France, region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
