Born to Norwegian immigrants in Minnesota, Siri Hustvedt has written four novels, namely the famous What I Loved. With The Sorrows of an American (2008) she plunges the reader into the inner world of an American psychoanalyst weighed down by family secrets and traumatised by the tragedy of September 11. She brilliantly describes the subconscious of an America attached to its fundamental values and weakened by the great tragedies which afflict it today.

Born in London to an English mother and a Pakistani father, Hanif Kureishi is one of the writers who has helped to breathe new life into English literature. For the past twenty years, his novels and films have dealt with issue such as English pop culture, immigration, the quest for identity and relations between men and women. His latest novel features a neurotic psychoanalyst in his fifties who manipulates his subconscious and that of his patients in an attempt to understand his past. Something to Tell You(2008) is a jubilatory human comedy.

Michel Schneider, writer and psychoanalyst, is the author of essays on literature and music as well as fiction. Marilyn dernières séances (prix Interallié - Grasset, 2006) tells the story of the most incongruous couple in Hollywood – Marilyn Monroe and her psychoanalyst, Ralph Greeson. With great elegance, this sumptuous roman puzzle describes the relationship which lasted for the thirty months that preceded her death.