Valérie Perrin

Valérie Perrin was born in 1967 in Remiremont, in the Vosges Mountains, France. She grew up in Burgundy and settled in Paris at the age of nineteen. The international success of her novels Forgotten on Sunday, Fresh Water for Flowers, Three, and Tata has made her one of the most widely read and most beloved French authors in the world. Fresh Water for Flowers (Europa, 2020) won the Maison de la Presse Prize, the Paperback Readers Prize, and was named an ABA Indies Introduce and Indie Next List title. It has been translated into forty languages. In Italy, both Fresh Water for Flowers and Tata (Europa, 2026) were the bestselling books of their respective publication years. In 2025, readers of ELLE named Perrin one of their top ten favorite French authors of all time. Perrin now lives in Paris.