Claire Messud
Claire Messud is the author of six works of fiction.
A recipient of a Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her family.
- Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize
- Longlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize
- Winner of the 2024 Deborah Pease Prize
- A 2024 New York Times Best Historical Fiction Book
- One of the Washington Post’s 10 Best Books of 2024
- A New Yorker Best Book of 2024
… and more
Claire will be interviewed
by Wendy Harding
Jardin des Plantes
Sunday, 24th May at 11am
Jardin des Plantes
Carys Davies
Carys Davies is the author of three novels and two collections of short stories. Her debut novel West was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, runner-up for the Society of Authors’ McKitterick Prize, and winner of the Wales Book of the Year for Fiction.
Her second novel The Mission House was The Sunday Times 2020 Novel Of The Year.
Her latest novel Clear won the 2025 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, the 2025 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, and the 2025 Wales Book of the Year, and has been nominated for many others…
Carys will be interviewed
by Sealia Thevenau
Jardin des Plantes
Sunday, 24th May at 11am