Guillaume Musso

Guillaume Musso is a French novelist born on 6 June 1974 in Antibes, on the Côte d'Azur. He studied economics and taught the subject for several years, first in Phalsbourg and then at the Centre international de Valbonne, before writing full-time.

His first novel, Skidamarink, appeared in 2001; his breakthrough came in 2004 with Et après..., which was adapted into a film in 2008. He has since become one of France's best-selling novelists, writing thrillers and romantic suspense that have been translated into dozens of languages. In 2017 he moved from XO Éditions to Calmann-Lévy.

In December 2021 he received the Prix Raymond-Chandler, a career award for crime and thriller writing.