Genevieve Damas
Successively actor, director, adaptor and dramatist, Geneviève Damas is also the author of twenty plays, five novels and a collection of short stories. Her play, Molly à vélo, received the Prix du Théâtre 2004 as the best playwright and became the favourite of high-school students with the Coup de Coeur des Lycéens de Loire-Atlantique 2006 while STIB, published in 2009, won the Prix du Parlement de la Communauté française in 2010. Her first novel Si tu passes la rivière – Éditions Luce Wilquin, was awarded the Prix Victor Rossel 2011, the Plume d’Or du Premier Roman in 2012, as well as the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie 2012 and the Prix du Roman de la Ville de Seynod in 2013. Her recent work includes Patricia (2017) and Bluebird (2019), both published by Gallimard.