Lionel Shriver

The author of numerous novels, Lionel Shriver received the Orange Prize for We Need to Talk about Kevin (2006), which was adapted into a film by Lynne Ramsay in 2011. Shriver deploys her sarcastic verve again in Big Brother (2013; recently translated into French by Laurence Richard), the story of a successful businesswoman who reunites with her older brother, a boastful and seductive jazz prodigy, only to find him obese, unhealthy, and compulsive. Shriver astutely analyzes our neurotic relationship with food and the alarming increase in obesity in our societies.