Biography

A children’s literature author born in 1968, she is from Paris, where to pay for drama studies, she worked a variety of odd jobs, from waitress to receptionist to factory worker. Then writing began to nourish her, she became a screenwriter, film reader, journalist, editor, novelist…

In children’s literature since 2009, she has written fifty works and received around forty French-language literary prizes, including Babelio 2021.

The albums with Christine Roussey (La Martinière edition) are translated into 30 languages ​​for 2 million copies worldwide.

From very dark black (Peur Express, Un hiver en Enfer – Actes Sud Junior), to album texts that travel the world (Dans mon petit coeur/In my Heart with Christine Roussey), through novels for teenagers and young adults (Une fille de…, J’ai quatorze ans et ce n’est pas une bonne nouvelle – Actes Sud Junior); she explores childhood, adolescence and social issues.

She campaigns for children’s literature without taboos that invites young people to question themselves. Furthermore, for several years she has been conducting documentary work of interviews and sound portraits about those young people we rarely hear, “Chambres adolescentes” with the photographer Juliette Mas. This transgenerational testimony is published in book form and presented as an exhibition.