Leila Slimani is the bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny, one of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2018, for which she became the first Moroccan woman to win France’s most prestigious literary prize, the Goncourt. Her other books include Adèle, Sex and Lies, and the #1 international bestsellers In the Country of Others and Watch Us Dance, which are the first and second parts of a trilogy of novels based on her family’s roots in revolutionary Morocco. Her new novel of the trilogy, entitled J'emporterai le feu, was published in January 2025 in French by Editions Gallimard. Born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1981, she lives in Portugal.