Nolwenn Le Blevennec is a journalist and writer. She is editor-in- chief at L’Obs, and lives in Paris. Friends and Lovers is her second novel; her first, As The Eagle Flies, was published by Peirene in 2023.

Delfi and was a long-time editor at Berlin-based periodical

Die Tageszeitung. Her 2017 debut novel, Ellbogen (Elbow), received

numerous literary prizes in Germany, and she co-edited the 2019 essay collection Your Homeland Is Our Nightmare, which

became an overnight sensation in German-speaking Europe and is now available in English translation. Dschinns (Djinns), her second novel, was a Spiegel bestseller and shortlisted for the

German Book Prize. It has been adapted for multiple theatre

performances and will soon be adapted for cinema. Aydemir lives

and works in Berlin.