Danièle Sallenave

Danièle Sallenave is a French novelist, essayist, and journalist born in 1940 in Angers, France. She is renowned for works such as Les Portes de Gubbio (Prix Renaudot 1980), La Vie fantôme (translated as Phantom Life), and La Fraga, and was elected to the Académie française in 2011, receiving the Grand Prix de littérature de l'Académie française for her lifetime achievement among other honors including Officer of the Legion of Honour.com