Viel, Tanguy

Born in 1973, Tanguy Viel lives in Nantes. He is the author of "Black Note, Cinema", and "The Absolute Perfection of Crime" (The New Press). Linda Coverdale has translated Jean Echenoz's "Ravel" (The New Press), among many other books. She won the 2004 Impac Prize for Tahar Ben Jelloun's "This Blinding Absence of Light" (The New Press) and the French American Foundation's Translation Prize in 1997. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.