Career
Raised in Le Havre, Maylis de Kerangal went on to study history and philosophy in Rouen and Paris. She worked at Paris-based Éditions Gallimard (children and youth department, from 1991 to 1996), then travelled in the United States, and went back to studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. She wrote her first novel in 2000, and from that moment on became a full-time writer
Her celebrated novel, Birth of a Bridge ", presents a literary saga of a handful of men and women who are charged with building a bridge somewhere in a mythical California.
Mend the Living was recently adapted for the stage at the theatre festival in Avignon, receiving rave reviews for its intimate look at the realities and philosophical questioning around organ donation.
