Marie Darrieussecq was born in 1969 in the Basque Country, France. A student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, she wrote a Ph.D. about autofiction and autobiography in 1997. She has published more than twenty books, novels, short stories, biography, theater, non-fiction, and translation. She was a psycho-analyst for a while before turning exclusively to writing. Since her debut bestselling novel Truismes in 1996 (American translation under the title Pig Tales, 1998), she has remained faithful to her French publisher POL. A laureate of the Prix Médicis and of the Prix des Prix (award of awards) in 2013 for her novel Il faut beaucoup aimer les hommes (Men), her work is translated in many languages.