Born in Warsaw, Kinga Wyrzykowska followed her parents to France in the early 1980s. After studying Modern Literature at the École Normale Supérieure, she taught at the University of Saint-Étienne and began a thesis which she abandoned to turn to theater and audiovisual work. She wrote two documentary films and translated plays before publishing two young adult books with Bayard: Memor, le monde d’après in 2015 and De nos propres ailes in 2017. Patte blanche, her first novel published in 2022, was awarded the Prix Françoise Sagan in 2023. It was also translated into Polish and published by Nowela. Her new novel Princesse will be published in January 2026 by Seuil.
