French writer Anne Delaflotte Mehdevi was born in Auxerre. After completing a degree in international law, she moved to Prague where she learned and practiced bookbindery alongside her work as a writer.
In 2008, she published La Relieuse du gué her first novel, in which she explores the bookbindery profession through the character of Mathilde. Since then, she has published Fugue (2010), then Sanderling (2013), for which she received the Thyde Monnier Prize in 2013.
Continuing the themes of her first novel, Le portefeuille rouge was published in 2015. Le livre des heures (2023), her fifth novel, shortlisted for the 2022 Prix des Libraires, is followed by Trop humain in 2024.
Her novels have been translated into German, Italian, Dutch, and Slovak.
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