Anna Gavalda





Anna Gavalda

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in Boulogne-Billancourt, France
December 09, 1970

gender
female

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Anna Gavalda is a French teacher and award-winning novelist.

Referred to by Voici magazine as "a distant descendant of Dorothy Parker", Anna Gavalda was born in an upper-class suburb of Paris. While working as French teacher in high school, a collection of her short stories was first published in 1999 under the title "Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part" that met with both critical acclaim and commercial success, selling more than three-quarters of a million copies in her native France and winning the 2000 "Grand Prix RTL-Lire." The book was translated into numerous languages including in English and sold in twenty-seven countries. It was published to acclaim in North America in 2003 as "I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewh...more


Average rating: 3.78 · 13,132 ratings · 1,308 reviews · 11 distinct works · Similar authors
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4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 5,614 ratings — published 2004 — 70 editions
I Wish Someone Were Waiting...
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3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 3,046 ratings — published 1999 — 43 editions
Someone I Loved
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3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 1,912 ratings — published 2002 — 57 editions
L'Echappée belle
3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 1,092 ratings — published 2001 — 40 editions
La consolante
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3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 578 ratings — published 2002 — 16 editions
Juntos, nada más
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
Anna Gavalda Coffret 3 volumes
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
Ceux qui savent comprendront
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2000
معا
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3.29 of 5 stars 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012
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“...But friends, those I wanted to please? There are so few, so few... and you're one of them. You... because you have such a gift for life. You grab hold of it with both hands. You move, you dance, you know how to make the rain and the sunshine in a home. You have this incredible gift for making people around you happy. You're so at ease, so at ease on this little planet...”
Anna Gavalda

“How could you let yourself be sidetracked while I was waiting for your breath on my back?”
Anna Gavalda, I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere

“-Tu crois que c'est comme tes mines de crayon ? Tu crois que ça s'use quand on s'en sert ?
- De quoi ?
-Les sentiments.”
Anna Gavalda, Hunting and Gathering

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