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Hélène Bessette (1918-2000) published thirteen novels with Gallimard between 1953 and 1973, won the Cazes prize in 1954 and was twice in the running for the Goncourt prize and the Médicis prize.
‘Lili is Crying is not straightforwardly tragic – as the title may initially trick us into believing – but darkly funny, marvellously strange, insistently performative and, somehow, truer than true.’ — Saba Sams, author of Send Nudes ‘This book is brilliant and bizarre, a Grey Gardens-esque tragicomedy, as if written by a sinister cousin of Stevie Smith.’ — Camilla Grudova, author of The Coiled Serpent ‘AT LAST, SOMETHING NEW.’ — Raymond Queneau, author of Zazie in the Metro ‘Living literature, for me, in France today – it’s Hélène Bessette.’ — Marguerite Duras
