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Laurent Gounelle

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Bio

Laurent Gounelle is an internationally renowned and bestselling author whose books have been translated into twenty-five languages. He is a personal development specialist who trained in humanities at NLP University in Santa Cruz. He lives in France.

Sandra Smith is the translator of all 12 novels by Irène Némirovsky available in English, as well as a new translation of Camus' L'Etranger (The Outsider, Penguin UK, 2012). Her translation of Némirovsky's Suite Française (2006) won the French-American Foundation and Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize for fiction, as well as the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize, the first time that the same book has ever won both prizes in the same year. Suite Française also won the Independent British Booksellers Book of the Year prize and was voted Book of the Year by The Times of London.