Desolation

About the Authors

Yasmina Reza is a playwright and novelist whose plays have all been multi-award-winning critical and popular international successes, translated in more than thirty languages. Her plays include Conversations After a Burial, The Passage of Winter, Art (which was awarded a Tony in 1999), The Unexpected Man, and Life × 3. She is also the author of a translation of Kafka’s Metamorphosis, a novel, Hammerklavier , and a film, Lulu Kreutz’s Picnic. She lives in Paris.

Carol Brown Janeway

Carol Brown Janeway’s translations include Binjamin Wilkomirski’s Fragments, Marie de Hennezel’s Intimate Death, Bernard Schlink’s The Reader, Jan Philipp Reemtsma’s In the Cellar, Hans-Ulrich Treichel’s Lost, Zvi Kolitz’s Yosl Rakover Talks to God, Benjamin Lebert’s Crazy, and Sándor Márai’s Embers.