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Reza , born in Paris in 1959, is an acclaimed playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. Her first play, Conversations après un enterrement (Conversations After a Burial) won her the 1987 "Molière Award for Best Author" along with a " Johnson Foundation Award" and a "SACD New Talent Award". Other plays include Art, and The Unexpected Man. Other works include Hammerklavier ( George Braziller, 2000) and Desolation (Knopf, 2002; Vintage 2003), published in English to great acclaim. Publishers' Weekly said the following: "The winter of this Parisian's delightful discontent alternates brilliantly between dry humor and wry flashes of heartbreaking wisdom. Crafted with loving care and remarkable attention to voice...". Her novel Adam Haberberg will be published by Knopf a year from now.
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