Mario Soldati (17 November 1906 - 19 June 1999) was an Italian writer and film director. In 1954 he won the Strega Prize for Lettere da Capri. He directed several works adapted from novels, and worked with leading Italian actresses, such as Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida. Soldati studied Humanities in his native city, Turin, and History of Art in Rome. He started publishing novels in 1929. He achieved the widest notice with America primo amore, published in 1935, a memoir of the time he spent teaching at Columbia University.

Olivier Adam was born in 1974 in the Paris region. Ja va bien, is his first novel he published in 2000. The novel is adapted to the cinema in 2007.