Sabri Louatah

(Saint-Étienne, 1983)

French writer who became an international name with the Les Sauvages saga, a social and political thriller based on France today. It envisages a present where an Arab is the president of the French Republic With that as his starting point, Louatah reflects on what it means to be French through cultural diversity and migrations. The first volume, Savages: The Wedding (Corsair, 2018), won the Prize for First French Novel when the original French version was published in 2012