Corinne Atlan graduated from National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations, Paris. She has translated over 40 Japanese novels including Hitonari Tsuji's Hakubutsu (1999 French Femina Prize), Haruki Murakami's The Wind - Up Bird Chronicle (Nejimakidori kuronikuru), and Ryu Murakami's Kyoko. Her first novel Le Monastere de l'Aube was published in 2006.