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Leïla Slimani born 3 October [ 1 ] is a French-Moroccan writer and journalist. She is also a French diplomat in her capacity as the personal representative of the French president Emmanuel Macron to the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie. Slimani's maternal grandmother Anne Dhobb née Ruetsch; — grew up in Alsace. After the war she followed him back to Morocco, where they lived in Meknes.
Anne Dhobb's autobiographical novel was published in ; she became the first writer in the family. The couple had three daughters; Leïla Slimani is the middle one. Leïla was born in Rabat on 3 October ; she grew up in a liberal, French-speaking household and attended French schools.
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After her graduation, she temporarily considered a career as an actress, completing an acting course and appearing in supporting roles in two films. The work required much travel. After her son was born in and she was arrested in Tunisia while reporting on the Arab Spring , she decided to quit her job at Jeune Afrique to pursue freelance work and write a novel instead. The novel, however, was rejected by publishers.
In , Slimani took a writing workshop by Jean-Marie Laclavetine , a novelist and editor at Gallimard. The novel fared well with French critics and received the La Mamounia literary award in Morocco. In , her second child, a daughter, was born.
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In addition to her native Moroccan citizenship, Slimani also holds French citizenship due to her Alsatian heritage. In August , she was announced as the chair of judges for the International Booker Prize On 6 November the president of France, Emmanuel Macron , appointed Leila Slimani his personal representative to the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.
Slimani got the idea for her story after seeing the Dominique Strauss-Kahn unfolding news. The novel fared well with French critics; in Morocco it received the La Mamounia literary award.
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Chanson douce lit. The novel starts off with the immediate aftermath of the murder, and then recounts the backstory of the parents, a liberal, upper middle class Parisian couple, as well as their nanny, who is economically and psychologically struggling. Slimani named the nanny Louise after Louise Woodward , a British au pair in the US who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter of the toddler in her care.
The novel was well received by French critics.
It quickly turned into a bestseller, with over 76, copies printed within three months even before the book was awarded the Prix Goncourt in It subsequently became the most read book in France that year with over , copies printed; by the end of around , copies had been sold in France. Le pays des autres , lit. Slimani worked for several years as a journalist reporting on Northern Africa and the Maghreb, covering, among other things, the Arab Spring in La baie de Dakhla : itinérance enchantée entre mer et désert describes a region of Morocco on the Atlantic where people are going through a period of transition between traditional life and modernity.
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