Alma Brami is a novelist who burst onto the scene in 2008. She published the novel Without Her, which won several awards, when she was 23 years old. She followed up that success by writing They Left Her There and As Long As You Are Happy. In the autumn of 2009, she starred in Jean Cocteau's one-act play The Human Voice in Paris. She also writes books for children. Her first childhood memoirs will be published soon. Three of her novels have been translated into Chinese.