Katherine Pancol

Katherine Pancol is a French novelist, born in Casablanca in 1954. She graduated in French literature and worked as a journalist for Paris Match and Cosmopolitan before publishing her first novel, “Moi d'abord”, in 1979. She then spent eight years in New York, where she took the creative-writing course at Columbia University. Her widest readership came with the trilogy opened by “Les Yeux jaunes des crocodiles” (2006) and continued in “La Valse lente des tortues” (2008) and “Les Écureuils de Central Park sont tristes le lundi” (2010), translated into some thirty languages. She followed it with the “Muchachas” trilogy (2014) and further novels including “Trois baisers” (2017) and “Bed Bug” (2019).