Jean-Baptiste Del Amo

Biography

Jean-Baptiste Del Amo was born in 1981 and 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. Animalia, his fourth novel, was shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt, Prix Femina, Prix Medicis and Prix Wepler. His most novel Le Fils de l’Homme, was published by Gallimard in 2021, won the Prix Fnac and was shortlisted for the Prix Femina. La Nuit Ravagee won the Lire Magazine Book of the Year Award 2025 and will be adapted by Netflix. His most recent book, Une Eclaircie, was published in the collection My Night at the Museum and longlisted for the Prix Femina 2026.