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Lili is Crying

Hélène Bessette

Kate Briggs

Eimear McBride

The first English translation of the cult twentieth-century novelist Hélène Bessette, who has recently been rediscovered in France.
On publication in 1953, Marguerite Duras wrote, 'Living literature, for me, in France today — it's Hélène Bessette.'
An experimental lyrical novel by the founder of the one-woman literary movement, the Gang of the Poetic Novel.

Hélène Bessette

Hélène Bessette (1918–2000) published thirteen novels with Gallimard between 1953 and 1973, won the Cazes prize in 1954 and was twice in the running for the Goncourt prize and the Médicis prize.

Kate Briggs

Kate Briggs grew up in Somerset, UK, and lives and works in Rotterdam, NL, where she founded and co-runs the writing and publishing project ‘Short Pieces That Move’. She is the translator of two volumes of Roland Barthes’s lecture and seminar notes at the Collège de France: The Preparation of the Novel and How to Live Together, both published by Columbia University Press. This Little Art, her genre-bending essay on the art of translation, was published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2017. In 2021, she was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize. Her debut novel, The Long Form, was published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2023 and shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize the same year.

Eimear McBride

Eimear McBride is the author of four novels: A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, The Lesser Bohemians, Strange Hotel and The City Changes Its Face. She held the inaugural Creative Fellowship at the Beckett Research Centre, University of Reading and is the recipient of the Women's Prize for Fiction, Goldsmiths Prize, Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

Lili is Crying

Hélène Bessette

Kate Briggs

Eimear McBride

Hélène Bessette

Kate Briggs

Eimear McBride

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