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Yasmina Reza

Biography

Yasmina Reza

Yasmina Reza is a playwright and novelist whose works have been translated into more than 30 languages and include “Art” and "God of Carnage," both winners of the Tony Award for Best Play. The film adaptation of the latter, "Carnage," was directed by Roman Polanski in 2011. She has written six books, including DAWN DUSK OR NIGHT: A Year with Nicolas Sarkozy (Knopf, 2008). She lives in Paris.

Yasmina Reza

Books by Yasmina Reza

Happy Are the Happy
written by Yasmina Reza, translated by John Cullen - Fiction

The 20 interlocking vignettes in this slim novel by Yasmina Reza, author of the plays “Art” and “God of Carnage,” focus on the family lives of more than two-dozen characters. Couples bicker over such trivialities as the purchase of the wrong cheese at a grocery store or the playing of a wrong suit in bridge. As in much of Reza’s work, these conflicts are catalysts for larger arguments and the release of long-suppressed resentments.