Myriam Chirousse

Myriam Chirousse (Cagnes-sur-Mer, 1973) is a French writer and translator. She studied philosophy at the University of Nice, and Chinese at the Institut des Langues Orientales in Paris, while writing her first novellas and short stories. In 2000, she moved to Spain, where she taught French and trained to be a translator. In 2008, she won the Pierre-François Caillé prize for her first literary translation, Le roi transparent (Historia del rey transparente by Rosa Montero). Her first novel, Miel et vin, was published the following year. Now back in France, she is the author of over twenty translations for novels by Spanish and Latin American authors and six novels of her own.