Pauline Delabroy-Allard | |
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| Born | 1988 |
| Nationality | French |
| Known for | Writer |
Pauline Delabroy-Allard (born 1988) is a French writer. Her first novel, All About Sarah, was published by Penguin Books in 2018. [1] [2] Delabroy-Allard received numerous awards for her novel, . [3]
In an interview with The Guardian , Delabroy-Allard revealed: "She wrote it to get the story out of her head and then stuck it in a drawer." And said: “I didn’t expect anyone would want to publish it.” [4]
Pauline Delabroy-Allard is the daughter of writer Jean Delabroy. After studying classics, she was a bookseller, an usherette in a cinema, and, at the age of 23, a librarian in a high school. [5]
In 2013, she co-authored a first book with Kim Hullot-Guiot, La littérature expliquée aux matheux. [6] She also contributes to the online magazine En attendant Nadeau. [5]
That same year she released an acclaimed short film, « Voyage en Mère inconnue » (Journey to an Unknown Mother), about her life as a single mother, unexpectedly abandoned by her first partner, the father of her eldest daughter.
In 2018, her first novel, published by Éditions de Minuit, "Ça raconte Sarah" (All about Sarah), received significant critical acclaim, [7] and the Prix des Booksellers de Nancy / Le Point and the Prix Envoyé par la poste. [8] It was also shortlisted for the second Goncourt, [9] as well as for the Prix Goncourt des lycéens. [10] She is the winner of the Goncourt List Prize: the Polish choice awarded in Krakow by a jury of Polish students of French language and literature, [11] then the Goncourt List Prize: the choice of Romania. [12] On November 20, she won the Prix du Style [13] and on December 11, she received the France Culture-Télérama student novel prize. [14] In March 2019, the writer also received the Liste Goncourt/Le choix de la Suisse award for this novel. [15]
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