Jean-Baptiste Del Amo (Toulouse, 1981) is a French writer of Spanish origin, grandson of republican emigrants. In a few years, his has become a prolific and successful career. His first book, the short story Ne rien faire (2006), won the Young French Language Prize. In 2008 he achieved unanimous critical acclaim with the novel A Libertine Education (Cabaret Voltaire, 2011), which won, among others, the first novel Goncourt Awards, François Mauriac de la Académie française and Fénéon. In his second novel, La Sal (Cabaret Voltaire, 2013), Del Amo tells the story of a family from the small coastal town of Sète. In 2015 Cabaret Voltaire published Pornographia, Sade Award, with the photographs taken for the occasion by Antoine D’Agata. Animal kingdom, his latest book, was awarded the Livre Inter 2017 Prize. He currently resides in Paris.