Didier van Cauwelaert News

Digital-first publisher Le French Book just released the full collection of 52 Serial Shorts, short stories from seven of France's best writers-Tatiana de Rosnay, Didier Van Cauwelaert, Yann Queffélec, Daniel Picouly, Christine Orban, Irène Frain, and Harold Cobert. This unlikely combination of French literary giants includes two Goncourt prizewinners and one of France's most-read authors.

Le French Book has now released its full 99-cent e-book series of short stories from seven of France's best writers—Tatiana de Rosnay, Didier Van Cauwelaert, Yann Queffélec, Daniel Picouly, Christine Orban, Irène Frain, and Harold Cobert. Among them, this unlikely combination of French literary giantsincluding two Goncourt prize winners and one of France's most-read authorshave written upwards of 175 acclaimed works of literature. Here, they got together to play a collaborative writing game that resulted in seven-author stories. Each one is a study in the creative process, in addition to being playful and often just plain wacky. One five-star review calls them “truly fun, dark humor guaranteed.”

Le French Book is launching a 99-cent e-book collection with short stories from seven of France's best writers-Tatiana de Rosnay, Didier Van Cauwelaert, Yann Queffelec, Daniel Picouly, Christine Orban, Irene Frain, and Harold Cobert. These top authors got together to play a collaborative writing game called 'cadavres exquis' ("delicious corpses"), in which one started a story and passed it on until all the authors had contributed. The resulting seven-author stories are sometimes strange, always very clever, and a real study in writing skill.