Lullaby

Leila Slimani is the first Moroccan woman to win France’s most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt. Her first novel, The Ogre’s Garden – forthcoming from Faber & Faber in 2019 – won the Prix La Mamounia.

Slimani is a journalist and frequent commentator on women’s and human rights. She lives in Paris with her husband and two children. Sam Taylor is the translator of HHhH by Laurent Binet and You Will Not Have my Hatred by Antoine Leiris.