Muriel Barbery teaches philosophy. The Elegance of the Hedgehog is her second novel, which has been highly acclaimed in the press and was awarded the Prix du Rotary international 2007. Her first book, Une gourmandise (Gallimard, 2000), translated into twelve languages was published by Gallic Books as The Gourmet in September 2009.

Click here to read a rare interview with Muriel Barbery. Click here for an Amazon.com interview with Muriel Barbery and Alison Anderson.

There's another (audio) interivew with Muriel (mp3 format). This is approximately 55 minutes. Click to play the interview within this page or or use a Right mouse click/Save As (for Windows users) or Right mouse click (or Ctrl+click)/Download linked file (for Mac users). MP3 files are playable on almost all digitial music players and this may be treated as a "PodCast".