Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
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Jean-Baptiste Del Amo

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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, first published by Gallimard in 2021, is his second novel to appear in English.

Books by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
The Son of Man
Jean-Baptiste Del Amo

‘Chilling and beautifully written…It pulled me in from the first page and refused to let go.’ Dua Lipa

From the author of the ‘extraordinary’ Animalia (Sunday Times), winner of the Republic of Consciousness Prize, a blazing new novel exploring nature, family, and violence, set on a hostile and glorious mountainside haunted by the past.

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Animalia
Jean-Baptiste Del Amo

A haunting and powerful novel from one of France’s most exciting and talented young writers.

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