Elisa Shua Dusapin
Elisa Shua Dusapin,, is a Franco-Swiss writer, with Korean origins through her mother, currently living in Switzerland.
Career
She studied at the .In 2016, Elisa Shua Dusapin published her first novel, Hiver à Sokcho, which won numerous awards, including the National Book Award for Translated Literature, the Prix Robert-Walser, Prix Alpha and the Prix Régine-Deforges. In 2024, the novel was adapted into the film Winter in Sokcho by the Franco-Japanese director Koya Kamura.
Her second novel, Les Billes du Pachinko, was published in 2018.
Awards and honors
- 2016: Prix Robert-Walser for Hiver à Sokcho
- 2017: Prix Régine Desforges for Hiver à Sokcho
- 2019: Prix suisse de littérature for Les Billes du Pachinko
- 2021: National Book Award for Translated Literature for Winter in Sokcho, translated from the French by Aneesa Abbas Higgins
- 2023: Prix Wepler for Le vieil incendie
- 2023: Prix Fénéon for ''Le vieil incendie''