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Writer - Leila Slimani
What draws the novelist to such dark visions of femininity? HARDtalk's Sarah Montague speaks to Leila Slimani, one of France’s most famous, and most controversial, authors.
What draws the novelist to such dark visions of femininity? Sarah Montague speaks to Leila Slimani, one of France’s most famous, and most controversial, authors. Her first book Adele, just published in English, shocked readers for breaking taboos about women and sex addiction. Infanticide is the subject of her second novel, Lullaby, which became a publishing sensation and has been translated into 40 languages.
(Photo: Leila Slimani in the Hardtalk studio)
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