Jean-Baptiste Del Amo is one of France’s most exciting and ambitious young writers. He is the author of Pornographia, Le sel and Une éducation libertine, which won the Goncourt First Novel Prize. His fourth novel, Animalia, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in Frank Wynne’s translation in 2019, was a TLS Book of the Year 2019 and won the 2020 Republic of Consciousness Prize. The Son of Man, first published by Gallimard in 2021, was published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2024.