Jean-Baptiste Del Amo was born in 1981 and is one of France’s most exciting writers. Animalia, his fourth novel, published by Text in 2019, won the Prix du Livre Inter 2017 and the 2020 Republic of Consciousness Prize, and was shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt, Prix Femina, Prix Medicis and Prix Wepler. The Son of Man, published by Gallimard in 2021, is his second novel to appear in English.