Laura Vazquez

Laura Vazquez (b. 1986, Perpignan, France) is a French poet, novelist, and playwright of Spanish descent who lives and works in Marseille, where she teaches writing. She publishes with Éditions du sous-sol, Cheyne éditeur, and other presses, and co-directs the literary journal Muscle.

Her first major collection, La Main de la main (Cheyne, 2014), received the Prix littéraire de la vocation en poésie. Her debut novel, La Semaine perpétuelle (Sous-sol, 2021) — translated into English as The Endless Week (Dorothy, 2025) — received the Prix de la Page 111 and a special mention from the Prix Wepler. Her versified epic Le Livre du large et du long (Sous-sol, 2023), which traces a narrator's physical and mental journey across the world at speed, was presented as a performance at the Villa Medici, where she was a fellow in 2023. That year she received the Prix Goncourt de la poésie for her complete body of work. During her residency at the Villa Medici she also wrote the theater piece Zéro (Sous-sol, 2024), staged at the Théâtre de la Criée in Marseille. Her second novel, Les Forces (Sous-sol, 2025), received the Prix Décembre, the Prix Les Inrockuptibles 2025, and the Prix Blù Jean-Marc Roberts. Her poems have been translated into German, Japanese, and other languages.