About our guests
Anne Berest
Anne Berest is known as the co-author of the bestselling How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are and the author of a novel about Françoise Sagan's life. Collaborating with her sister Claire, she wrote Gabriëlle, a well-received biography of their great-grandmother, Marcel Duchamp's muse. Berest, the great-granddaughter of painter Francis Picabia, has been featured in publications like French Vogue and Haaretz for her writing and award-winning television work. Her book The Postcard was a Prix Goncourt finalist and remains a bestseller in France.
Ben Faccini
Ben Faccini was born in England and brought up in rural France and Italy. He worked for many years for the UNESCO in Paris. He is the author of two books, The Water-Breather (Flamingo 2002) and The Incomplete Husband (Portobello 2007). As well as novels, he has written extensively on issues in the developing world, particularly about streets and working children and innovations in education. Apart from his writing skills, Ben Faccini is a translator. He has translated into English novels such as Lydie Salvayre’s Pas pleurer (as Cry, Mother Spain) and Mahi Binebine’s Le Fou du Roi (as The King’s Fool).
