Leyla Slimani (1981, Rabat) is the first Moroccan to win the most prestigious French literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, with her novel translated into thirty languages ​​- Put me to sleep. Journalist and advocate of women's and human rights, she is the personal representative of French President Emmanuel Macron for the promotion of French language and culture. So far, she has published three novels In the Garden of Cannibals, Put Me to Sleep and Land of Others - the first part of a planned autobiographical trilogy, and several books of essays, of which Sex and Lies: Sexual Life in Morocco contains the confessions of many women she spoke to while on a literary tour of Morocco. Lejla Slimani lives and works in Paris.