Alina Reyes


Alina Reyes is a French writer, best known for her literary treatment of eroticism.

Biography

She was born at Bruges, Gironde. Originally a freelance journalist, she devoted herself to fiction after a stay in Montreal. Reyes acquired notoriety with the success of her first novel, The Butcher, which was translated into numerous languages and adapted for the theatre; like many of her subsequent novels and essays, it showed a concern with contemporary eroticism and how to treat it in literary fiction.
She now splits her time between Paris and the Pyrenees.

Selected works

Le Boucher, 1988 Lucie au Long Cours, 1990 Au Corset qui Tue, 1992 Quand tu Aimes, il Faut Partir, 1993 Derrière la Porte, 1994 Satisfaction, 2002 Politique de l'Amour La séptima noche, 2004 El cuaderno de Rosa, 2007