Anna Gavalda





Anna Gavalda

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December 09, 1970 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France

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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 · 8,051 ratings · 987 reviews · 10 distinct works
Hunting and Gathering
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 3,532 ratings — published 2004 — 59 editions
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I Wish Someone Were Waiting...
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Someone I Loved
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La consolante
3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 496 ratings — published 2008 — 34 editions
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L'Echappée belle
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95 Pounds of Hope
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3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 326 ratings — published 2002 — 14 editions
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Anna Gavalda Coffret 3 volumes
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Ceux qui savent comprendront
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2000
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Xuntos e máis nada
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معًا
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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...”
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“A pen, you see, you hold it between your thumb and your index finger. No, wait, you hold it however you want. After that, it's not hard, you don't even think about it. Your hands don't exist anymore. The important thing happens elsewhere. No, this won't do, it's still too pretty. You're not being asked to come up with something pretty, you know. No one gives a damn about pretty. There are children's drawings and glossy magazines for that. So put on your mittens, little genius, little empty shell, yes, go on, put them on, I tell you, and maybe at last you'll see, you'll draw an almost perfect failed circle.”
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“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

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