Olivia Rosenthal is the author of a dozen fictions with Éditions Verticales, including We are not here to disappear (2007, Wepler-La Poste Foundation Prize 2007), What do the reindeer do after Christmas? (2010; Inter Book Prize 2011, Alexandre Vialatte Prize 2011), They are for nothing in my tears (“Minimals”, 2012), Survival mechanisms in a hostile environment (2014), All women are aliens (“Minimals”, 2016) and Praise of the Bastards (2019, 2019 Defector Award).
“Tokyo, 1995. Sarin gas attacks. Twenty-five years later, an investigation. Witnesses. Centipedes. Black widows. From encounter to encounter, she lets herself be traversed by what the country hides and reveals.
A learning of abandonment and letting go.” (Presentation of Vertical editions).