Jakuta Alikavazovic

Jakuta Alikavazovic (b. 1979, Paris) is a French novelist and translator of Bosnian and Montenegrin origins, whose parents settled in France in the early 1970s. She attended the École normale supérieure and holds an agrégation de Lettres.

Her debut novel Corps volatils (2008) received the Prix Goncourt du premier roman. Le Londres-Louxor (2010) was selected for the Prix du Livre Inter; La Blonde et le Bunker (2012) received a special mention from the Prix Wepler jury. Her essay Comme un ciel en nous (2021), which recounts a night spent alone in the Louvre and reflects on her father's role in teaching her to see art, won the Prix Médicis essai and was translated into English as Like a Sky Inside (Fern Books, 2024, translated by Daniel Levin Becker).

As a translator into French, Alikavazovic has worked from the English of David Foster Wallace, Toni Morrison, Ben Lerner, and Anna Burns. She lives and works in Paris.