Ariane Lessard

Ariane Lessard was born in 1990 in Lévis, not far from a monastery of cloistered sisters. She published her first novel, Feue, in 2018, which was a finalist for the Rendez-vous du premier roman, a first novel award. She also took part in the first residency of L’Hôtel des autrices in 2020, a feminist digital plateform created in Berlin during the pandemic, in which she wrote a novel in one month. School for Girls is her first novel to be translated into English.