Emmanuelle Pagano

Emmanuelle Salasc (formerly Pagano) (born 1969) is a French author.

She has written books which have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and won the EU Prize for Literature for her novel Les Adolescents troglodytes. Her book Faces on the Tip of My Tongue was the second of her books to be translated into English and in 2020 it was longlisted for the International Booker Prize.Salasc was born in 1969 in Aveyron. She resides in Ardèche with her family. In 2021, she began publishing under her birth surname, Salasc, having previously published using Pagano, her married surname.