Doan Bui
From 23 April to 20 May 2026

The Franco-Vietnamese writer Doan Bui was born in 1974. She is also a senior reporter for the French weekly Le Nouvel Obs, and the winner of the 2013 Albert Londres Prize, France’s highest journalism award. She is the author of Le silence de mon père (L’Iconoclaste, 2016), a personal narrative touching on the transmission of family history following the stroke that rendered her father unable to speak; and two novels published by Grasset – La tour (2022) and Le pays de Nulle part (2024). In her writing she is especially focused on narratives that are lost in history’s gaps and fissures, and on footnotes, while navigating between reality and fiction. The writer of two graphic novels – C’est quoi un terroriste (Seuil/Delcourt, 2019) and Fake News (Delcourt, 2021) – she has also co-written Ils sont devenus français (Lattès, 2010) with Isabelle Monnin, and Lettres d’amour et de guerre (L’Iconoclaste, 2024) with Pavlo and Viktoriya Matyusha.