Alice Zeniter is a novelist, playwright, scriptwriter and director whose works, translated worldwide, have won numerous prizes including the Prix du Livre Inter (2013), the Prix Goncourt des lycéens (2017) and the Dublin Literary Award (2022). She is French, of Algerian descent, and her work intertwines French colonial history and family stories, often focusing on female characters both in the past and in the contemporary world. Her novel The Art of Losing appeared in the Best Historical Fiction of 2021 list from The New-York Times.
Zeniter will be a Belknap Long-Term Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council and Department of French and Italian in Spring 2026. At Princeton, she will teach an undergraduate course on texts written by daughters of immigrants.
