Karim Kattan, a Palestinian writer born in Jerusalem in 1989, grew up in Bethlehem. He holds a doctorate in comparative literature and writes in French and English. His collection of short stories, Préliminaires pour un verger futur (2017; Elyzad poche, 2024), was a finalist for the Prix Boccace. In 2021, his first novel, Le palais des deux collines (Elyzad poche, 2024), received the Prix des Cinq continents de la francophonie. With L'Éden à l'aube (Eden at Dawn), he confirms the richness of his hybrid literary universe, mixing orality and classical culture, realism and the marvelous. He lives in Paris.