Muriel Barbery

Barbery entered the École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud in 1990 and obtained her agrégation in philosophy in 1993. She then taught philosophy at the Université de Bourgogne, in a lycée, and at the Saint-Lô IUFM.[1]
Her novel L'Élégance du hérisson (translated into English as "The Elegance of the Hedgehog") topped the French best-seller lists for 30 consecutive weeks[2] and, reprinted 50 times, had by May 2008 sold more than a million copies.