Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
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Jean-Baptiste Del Amo

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Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, born in 1981, is one of France’s most exciting young writers. Animalia, his fourth novel, won the Prix du Livre Inter 2017 and the 2020 Republic of Consciousness Prize, and was shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt, Prix Femina, Prix Médicis and Prix Wepler. The Son of Man won the Prix du Roman Fnac. The Ravaged Night won Lire Magazine Book of the Year 2025.

Books by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo

The Ravaged Night

A translated literary horror novel from the celebrated French author admired by Dua Lipa and Christos Tsiolkas, about an abandoned house that feeds on our deepest fears and darkest desires.

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The Son of Man

‘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

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

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