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Sleepless
Published 1 August 2023
ISBN 9781922790088
Format Trade Paperback
Extent 224pp
AU Price $34.99
NZ Price $40.00

Sleepless

A Memoir of Insomnia

  • Translated by Penny Hueston
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1 Aug 2023
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1 Aug 2023
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Sleepless is both a personal account of the author’s inability to sleep and a poetic survey of a range of artists and others who have suffered from chronic insomnia—a book for everyone who has found sleep elusive.

The world is divided into those who can sleep and those who can’t.

What is it like to live with chronic insomnia? For Marie Darrieussecq, not sleeping began after the birth of her first
child and continues more than twenty years later.

In Sleepless, she recounts her own experiences alongside those of fellow insomniacs, mostly writers, some of whom claim a connection between not sleeping and creativity. With her inimitable humour, she describes her countless attempts to find a remedy, including consulting a somnologist.

Darrieussecq discusses bedrooms, beds, the homeless, refugees, trauma, our wakefulness online, and how our relationship with animals is connected to whether we can sleep. Sleepless will awaken you to the otherness of our world.

Insomnia feeds off this bewildering feeling: there is something else.
Published 1 August 2023
ISBN 9781922790088
Format Trade Paperback
Extent 224pp
AU Price $34.99
NZ Price $40.00
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About the authors

Marie Darrieussecq

Marie Darrieussecq was born in Bayonne in 1969. Her first novel, Pig Tales, was translated into thirty-five languages. She has published more than twenty books and been awarded numerous prizes. Text has published Tom Is Dead, All the Way, Men, Being Here: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker, Our Life in the Forest, The Baby, Crossed Lines, Sleepless and How to Make a Woman. Darrieussecq has written art criticism and journalism, is a translator from English and has practised as a psychoanalyst. She lives in Paris.
portrait photo of Marie Darrieussecq

Penny Hueston - Translator

Penny Hueston’s translations from French include novels by Emmanuelle Salasc, Patrick Modiano, Sarah Cohen-Scali and Raphaël Jerusalmy. She has translated eight books by Marie Darrieussecq and has been shortlisted for the JQ-Wingate Prize, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, twice for the Scott Moncrief Prize, and twice for the New South Wales Premier’s Translation Prize. She was the winner of the 2020 Medal for Excellence in Translation.
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Also by Marie Darrieussecq

How to Make a Woman
Crossed Lines
The Baby
Our Life in the Forest
Being Here
Men
All the Way
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Rights for Sleepless

Rights held: UK & Comm (excl Canada)

Rights sold: UK & Comm (excl ANZ & Canada)--Fitzcarraldo