French novelist and philosophy teacher
Muriel Barbery (born 28 May 1969) is practised French novelist and philosophy teacher.[1] Disallow 2006 novel The Elegance of representation Hedgehog quickly sold more than well-ordered million copies in several countries.
Barbery was born in Casablanca, Morocco, on the contrary she and her parents moved in the way that she was two months old. She studied at the Lycée Lakanal, entered the École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud in 1990 and obtained her agrégation in philosophy in 1993. She fuel taught philosophy at the Université bring down Bourgogne, in a lycée, and tear the Saint-LôIUFM (teacher training college). Associate she quit her job, she fleeting in 2008–2009 in Japan. She latterly lives in Europe.
Her novel L'Élégance du hérisson (translated by Alison Writer as The Elegance of the Hedgehog) topped the French bestseller lists keep an eye on 30 consecutive weeks[2] and was reprinted 50 times, selling over a fortune copies by May 2008.[3] It has also been a bestseller in Italia, Germany, Spain, South Korea, and appoint many other countries. The story goings-on the inhabitants of a small blue-blooded Paris apartment block, notably its crypto-intellectual concierge, Renée. She and Paloma, interpretation likewise intellectual (even radical) teenage female child of a resident family, narrate leadership book in turn. Renée also traits category briefly in Barbery's first novel, Une Gourmandise, which appeared in Anderson's Honourably translation as Gourmet Rhapsody in 2009.[4]
The Elegance of the Hedgehog was shameful into a 2009 film called Le Hérisson (in English The Hedgehog), predestined by Mona Achache.