Claire Messud: ‘To be a writer is to stand at the side’

Claire Messud is the author of seven novels, including the Booker-longlisted The Emperor’s Children and The Burning Girl . She was born in Connecticut, the daughter of an Algerian pied-noir father and a Canadian mother. She studied at Cambridge University, where she met her husband, the author and critic […]

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