Born in Lyon in 1982, Pierre Ducrozet is half French and half Austrian. He is the author of Eroica (Grasset, 2015), The invention of bodies (Actes Sud, 2017, winner of the Prix Flore), and Le grand vertige (Actes Sud, 2020, Mottart Prize awarded by the French Academy). He has taught creative writing and translated books from Spanish and English and lived in many cities, including Berlin and Paris. He now lives in Barcelona.