About Joy Sorman Books
Joy Sorman is a novelist and documentarian who lives and works in Paris. She has written fourteen books, including Boy, boys, boys, which was awarded the 2005 Prix de Flore, La peau de l'ours, À la folie, and Sciences de la vie, which was published by Restless Books in 2021 as Life Sciences. Tenderloin, for which she received the 2013 François Mauriac prize from l'Académie française, is Sorman's second novel to be translated into English.Lara Vergnaud is a translator of prose, creative nonfiction, and scholarly works from the French. She is the recipient of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize and the French Voices Grand Prize, and has been nominated for the National Translation Award. She lives in southern France.
