Bruno Pellegrino was born in 1988. He lives and works in Lausanne. Winner of Young writer Price (Prix du jeune écrivain) for his short story L’Idiot du village (Chastel, 2011), he published many of his works in reviews and joint publications. In 2015, he published his first novel called Atlas nègres (Tind, 2015). Bruno Pellegrino is also very active in the collectif AJAR, writer of Vivre près des tilleuls (Flammarion, 2016) and co-writer of Stand by (Zoé, 2018).