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Maylis de Kerangal

Maylis de Kerangal spent her childhood in Le Havre, France. Her fifth novel, Mend the Living, was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2016, and won the Wellcome Book Prize in 2017. ‘A Light Bird’ is a chapter from her book Canoes, first published by Editions Verticales (Gallimard) in 2021 and forthcoming in English translation in 2023 by MacLehose Press in the UK and Talon Books in Canada.

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Fiction | Issue 162 padlock
Fiction | Issue 162 padlock

A Light Bird

Maylis de Kerangal

‘Her voice survived her, in recorded form, indestructible, in the form of a light bird.’

Fiction by Maylis de Kerangal, translated by Jessica Moore.

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