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Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre | |
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| Born | 20 March 1976 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France |
| Known for | Novelist |
Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre (born 20 March 1976) is a French journalist and author.
Biography[edit]
Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France on 20 March 1976, a descendant of Princess Isabelle d’Orléans. She won five literary prizes for her first novel and was a finalist for the Goncourt prize for début fiction. Her second novel won the Grand Prix du Roman in 2016.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
Clermont-Tonnerre attended the Ecole Normale Supérieure though she didn't complete. She worked in investment banking in France and Mexico. Clermont-Tonnerre then became a columnist and journalist, currently working as the section editor on Point de Vue.[5][6]
Works[edit]
- Fourrure, Éditions Stock, 2010, ISBN 9782234063389
- Le dernier des nôtres, Éditions Grasset, 2016 ISBN 978-2-246-86189-8
- Translated by Adriana Hunter as The Last of Our Kind, Hodder & Stoughton, 2018, ISBN 978-1473658042
- Les Jours heureux, Éditions Grasset, 2021, ISBN 9782246861911
Sources[edit]
- ^ "French Literary Prizes". Alliance Francaise Melbourne.
- ^ "Grand Prix du Roman". academie-francaise.fr. Académie française.
- ^ magazine, Le Point (2 June 2010). "Le prix Françoise Sagan 2010 attribué à Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre". Le Point (in French).
- ^ "Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre". Susanna Lea Associates.
- ^ a b "Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco". www.fondationprincepierre.mc.
- ^ a b Match, Paris. "La fourrure de vivre". parismatch.com (in French).
- ^ "Les nominés pour le prix Renaudot sont..." LExpress.fr (in French). 28 May 2010.
