The celebrated novelist on his friendship with France’s first couple and his latest book, a French Brokeback Mountain. Plus, a Q&A with translator Molly Ringwald When French writer Philippe Besson was ...

Viking will publish French author Philippe Besson's award-winning novel Lie With Me, translated by actress and author Molly Ringwald. Isabel Wall, assistant editor at Viking, acquired UK and ...

Some good writers learn to write shorter. "Lie with Me" (Scribner) is Philippe Besson's 18th book, written in 2016 in what one suspects was one of those seizures of composition that produce such ...

Lie With Me: By Philippe Besson, translated by Molly Ringwald, Penguin Books, 160 pages, £8.99 (around ₹780). Set in a suburb outside Bordeaux in the 1980s, the story revolves around the narrator, ...

Award-winning French writer Philippe Besson bares his soul at this year’s Tmuna Theater Festival Besson seems to have few qualms about airing intimate details of his life in public, through his books, ...