Valérie Tong Cuong

Valérie Tong Cuong is a French novelist, born in Paris on 24 August 1964. She read political science and spent eight years in communications before turning to writing in 1994. She has published a dozen novels, among them L'atelier des miracles, Par amour and Les guerres intérieures, several of them prizewinners in France; Par amour has appeared in English as The Lies I Never Told You. Between 1997 and 2009 she also sang and wrote, under the name Qvoice, for the pop-rock band Quark, and she writes for television and film. Her books have been translated into some twenty languages.