Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, born in 1981, is one of France’s most exciting and ambitious young writers. He is the author of
Pornographia,
Le sel, and
Une éducation libertine, which won the Goncourt First Novel Prize. His fourth novel,
Animalia, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in Frank Wynne’s translation in 2019, was a
TLS Book of the Year 2019 and won the 2020 Republic of Consciousness Prize. T
he Son of Man, first published by Gallimard in 2021, is his second novel to be published by Fitzcarraldo Editions.
