Jean-Philippe Toussaint

Jean-Philippe Toussaint is a Belgian novelist, photographer, and filmmaker. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages and won numerous literary prizes, including the 2005 Prix Médicis for Fuir (Running Away) and the 2009 Prix Décembre for La Vérité sur Marie (The Truth about Marie). In 2012 Toussaint created an exhibition at the Louvre Museum that combined photographs, videos, installation art, and performance pieces to convey books without using writing. His novel The Emotions was published by Other Press in 2025.