His novel has upset more than one. It tells the story of a contemporary tragedy: difficulties to combine career and family life, and also infanticide. A novel about the conception of love and education, domination and money, appearances and prejudices. "A sweet song" highlights Leïla Slimani's sharp style, like a black poetry. Portrait of a writer.

Do you like your face?
I'm used to it.

Are you a girl or a woman?
I became a woman when I read Virginia Woolf, Fatima Mernissi and Simone de Beauvoir.

Do you sleep at night?
Like a dormouse.

Was your mother dominant or submissive?
Like most women, it was much more complex than that. She's a fighter. Rebellious and not dominant.

How many drugs do you need to live?
I discover that I need less than I thought. I am able to deprive myself.

The most beautiful look you've ever seen on you?
That of my parents.

List three lovers and lovers dreamed of during your lifetime.
Barack Obama, Michael Fassbender and Amy Adams.

Your greatest pleasure simple?
The loneliness.

Your last Google search?
Eating oysters pregnant.

The best advice you have been given?
Learn to say no.

The last thing you drank and eaten?
A tangerine and a coffee.

The taste you are ashamed of?
I am ashamed of nothing.

Are you violent?
I was and it did not give anything.

What can you not bear to say about you?
I do not hear what is said of me.

Can you get out without makeup?
I can and I want!

Do you like your first name?
I love it. Leila means "the night" in Arabic, and I like it very much.

Flee, adapt or fight?
Adapt and, depending on the circumstances, decide to flee or fight.

The first time you felt free?
The day I read.

The place of sex in your life?
Totally secret.

If you were a fairy and you could offer three gifts to a nascent child, who would it be?
Fantasy, temerity and the taste for happiness.