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Award History
| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prix Renaudot | 2016 | Winner |
About This Book
A dark comedy narrated by a Parisian woman who witnesses her neighbor kill his wife at a garden party, unfolding as a social satire of bourgeois life punctuated by violence and grief.
About the Author
Yasmina Reza is a French playwright, novelist, and actress born in 1959 in Paris to a Jewish Hungarian mother and an Iranian father. She is best known internationally as a playwright, with Art (1994) becoming one of the most performed plays in the world. Her plays, which include Le Dieu du carnage (God of Carnage, 2006), are known for their sharp wit and their excavation of bourgeois anxieties. Read more →
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