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Laura Vazquez

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Laura Vazquez is a leading figure in contemporary French literature and winner of the 2023 Prix Goncourt for poetry. The Forces was published in France in 2025, where it received the Prix des Inrocks, the Prix Décembre, and the Télérama Readers’ Prize. She was recently awarded the 2026 Franz Hessel Prize for Contemporary Literature. She lives in Marseille, France.

Books by Laura Vazquez

The Forces

A sexy, daring and darkly comic odyssey: a young woman rails against conformity to create a life outside the social order, from one of France’s most important and prize-winning writers, for fans of ALL FOURS, ACTS OF DESPERATION and OUTLINE

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