Nina Yargekov

Nina Yargekov (b. 1980) is a French writer of Serbian origin who was born in Paris and has lived between France and Serbia. She publishes with P.O.L.

Her debut novel, Double nationalité (P.O.L., 2016), is a formally inventive work narrated by a character with two simultaneous identities — French and Serbian — who experiences the world through two competing cultural and linguistic subjectivities at once. The novel received the Prix de Flore and established Yargekov as a voice of formal ambition and wit in contemporary French fiction, engaging questions of identity, belonging, and the divided self through a humor that is as philosophically precise as it is playful. Her subsequent novel, Mère (P.O.L.), extended her exploration of subjectivity, inheritance, and the structures through which identity is transmitted across generations.