Happy Are the Happy

About the Authors

YASMINA REZA is a playwright and novelist whose works have been translated into more than thirty languages and include “Art” and God of Carnage, both winners of the Tony Award for Best Play. The film adaptation of the latter, Carnage, was directed by Roman Polanski in 2011. She has written six books, including Dawn Dusk or Night: A Year with Nicolas Sarkozy (Knopf, 2008). She lives in Paris.

JOHN CULLEN is the translator of many books from Spanish, French, German, and Italian, including Yasmina Khadra’s Middle East Trilogy (The Swallows of Kabul, The Attack, and The Sirens of Baghdad), Eduardo Sacheri’s The Secret in Their Eyes, Carlos Zanón’s The Barcelona Brothers, and Rithy Panh’s The Elimination. He lives in upstate New York.