Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, born in 1981, is one of France’s most exciting and ambitious young writers. He is the author of Pornographia, Le sel, and Une éducation libertine, which won the Goncourt First Novel Prize and which will be adapted for the cinema. Animalia, his fourth novel, and The Son of Man, his fifth novel, have both won several prizes. His most recent novel, The Ravaged Night, has been published by Gallimard in 2025. His work has been translated into 13 languages.