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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. icon

International Forum on the Novel 2015: Keywords

By Mohammed Hasan Alwan, Aurélien Bellanger, Filippo D’Angelo, Ma Jian, Noémi Lefebvre, Érik Orsenna, Lionel Shriver, Joy Sorman, Dana Spiotta, & Adelle Waldman

Each year, the International Forum on the Novel in Lyon, France, invites authors to write about a “keyword” of their choice. The following texts are drawn from this year’s forum, presented by the ...

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