Leïla Slimani
Leïla Slimani: ‘Attack on Salman Rushdie shows why we must not censor ourselves’
The bestselling author fears she too could be a target but says terrorists cannot be allowed to win
Miranda Bryant
28, Aug, 2022 @1:00 PM
The Country of Others by Leïla Slimani review – between Maroc and a hard place
A woman quits France for Morocco in 1946 but is soon adrift, in a novel overly indebted to its author’s family backstory
Jonathan Myerson
08, Aug, 2021 @10:30 AM
The Country of Others by Leïla Slimani review – a compelling exploration of the past
The bestselling author of Lullaby works her dangerous magic on her own family history in the first of a planned trilogy
Tessa Hadley
28, Jul, 2021 @6:30 AM
Leïla Slimani: ‘I think I’m always writing about women, domination, violence’
The French-Moroccan author on why she writes, the complexity of identity, and the first book of a trilogy based on her family history
Johanna Thomas-Corr
24, Jul, 2021 @5:00 PM
Practically perfect? How a new kind of nanny novel nails parents’ angst and anger
Class, race, politics and power are at the heart of modern nanny novels that explore the complex relationship between working mothers and the women they pay to look after their children
Charlotte Northedge
01, May, 2021 @12:00 PM
Europa28 review – female writers on Europe's future
Freedom is a recurring theme in an ambitious collection edited by Sophie Hughes and Sarah Cleave
Jane Housham
03, Apr, 2020 @11:00 AM
Leïla Slimani: ‘This book is a mirror to make the elite look reality in the face’
The bestselling author and face of Macron’s France is championing women’s rights in her native Morocco
Kim Willsher
16, Feb, 2020 @7:00 AM
Lullaby review – bad-nanny thriller up past its bedtime
A young couple make a terrible childcare choice in this strained, unsatisfying drama based on Leïla Slimani’s bestselling novel
Peter Bradshaw
08, Jan, 2020 @4:00 PM
Broadening horizons: the best new fiction in translation
From a Japanese masterpiece to a gothic horror set in Baghdad … which novels to read following the Man Booker International prize
Marta Bausells
22, May, 2019 @5:30 PM
Adèle by Leïla Slimani review – sex-addiction thriller
The follow-up to Lullaby centres on a modern-day Emma Bovary whose frustrated desires threaten to destroy her family
Lara Feigel
14, Feb, 2019 @9:01 AM
'An insult': French writers outraged by festival's use of 'sub-English' words
Prominent writers including Leila Slimani have spoken out against the Salon du Livre in Paris’s use of phrases including ‘young adult’, a ‘bookquizz’ and ‘le live’
Alison Flood
04, Feb, 2019 @2:07 PM
Leïla Slimani: ‘I used to think every human being wanted to be free’
The author of Lullaby and Adele celebrates Julian Barnes’s British humour and reading Anna Karenina for the first time
Leïla Slimani
01, Feb, 2019 @10:00 AM
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