Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre

Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre
Born20 March 1976
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Known forNovelist

Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre (born 20 March 1976) is a French journalist and author.

Biography

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

  • Fourrure, Éditions Stock, 2010, ISBN 9782234063389
  • Le dernier des nôtres, Éditions Grasset, 2016 ISBN 978-2-246-86189-8
  • Les Jours heureux, Éditions Grasset, 2021, ISBN 9782246861911

Sources

  1. ^ "French Literary Prizes". Alliance Francaise Melbourne.
  2. ^ "Grand Prix du Roman". academie-francaise.fr. Académie française.
  3. ^ magazine, Le Point (2 June 2010). "Le prix Françoise Sagan 2010 attribué à Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre". Le Point (in French).
  4. ^ "Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre". Susanna Lea Associates.
  5. ^ a b "Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco". www.fondationprincepierre.mc.
  6. ^ a b Match, Paris. "La fourrure de vivre". parismatch.com (in French).
  7. ^ "Les nominés pour le prix Renaudot sont..." LExpress.fr (in French). 28 May 2010.