Agnès Martin-Lugand (born 1979) is a French novelist who gained fame with Les gens heureux lisent et boivent du café (Happy People Read and Drink Coffee) when she published it on Kindle in December 2012.[1] By 2017, her five novels had clocked up sales of two million worldwide.[2]
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Biography
editBorn in Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine in 1979, Martin-Lugand studied psychology and spent six years working on child protection in hospitals. She then took up writing, completing Les gens heureux lisent et boivent du café. After it had been turned down by several publishers, she decided to publish a digital version herself. It became an immediate success on Amazon's Kindle. Noticing its popularity, the publisher Michel Lafon bought the rights and published a print edition in 2013 which sold 300,000 copies. Lafon has continued the novel's success by having it translated into 14 languages,[3] including Portuguese, Lithuanian, Turkish and Chinese.[4][5] There are now plans for the work to be filmed in Hollywood.[2]
Martin-Lugand has continued to write, publishing Entre mes mains le bonheur se faufile (2014), La vie est facile, ne t'inquiète pas (2015), Désolée, je suis attendue (2016) and J'ai toujours cette musique dans la tête (2017).[5][6] Her most recent work, A la lumière du petit matin was published in 2018.[7]
Publications in English
editTwo of Martin-Lugand's works have been published in English:
Personal life
editMartin-Lugand lives in Rouen with her husband and their two boys.[10]
References
edit- ^ Simon, Chris (18 January 2013). "Entretien avec Agnès Martin-Lugand" (in French). Chrisimon.com. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
- ^ a b Trierweiler, Valérie (26 May 2017). "Agnès Martin-Lugand : la nouvelle star du roman" (in French). Paris Match. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
- ^ Showing all editions for 'Happy people read & drink coffee = (Les gens heureux lisent et boivent du café)'. OCLC WorldCat. OCLC 914195530. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
- ^ "Agnès Martin-Lugand" (in French). lePetitLittéraire.fr. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
- ^ a b Vavasseur, Pierre (25 June 2016). "Édition : Agnès Martin-Lugand, décidément très attendue" (in French). Le Parisien. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
- ^ "Agnès Martin-Lugand" (in French). fnac. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
- ^ Cochaud-Kaminski, Emilie (8 October 2018). "Prix des étoiles. Agnès Martin-Lugand : " Je pleure, je ris en écrivant "" (in French). 20 minutes. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
- ^ Martin-Lugand, Agnès (2017). Happy People Read and Drink Coffee. Atlantic Books. ISBN 978-1-925575-48-4.
- ^ Martin-Lugand, Agnès (2017). Don't Worry, Life Is Easy. Hachette Books. ISBN 978-1-60286-305-7.
- ^ Nedelec, Candice (15 April 2016). "Agnès Martin-Lugand : " J'aime libérer l'émotion de mes personnages "" (in French). Gala. Retrieved 9 March 2019.