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| Born | Florence Noiville Paris |
| Occupation | Writer/Journalist |
| Language | French |
| Nationality | French |
| Notable works | La Donation |
| Notable awards | Honorable mention at the RagazziAwards at the Bologna Book Festival in 2009 for "Et toi, ta grand-mère ?" |
| Partner | Martin Hirsch |
| Children | Raphaëlle, Mathilde, Juliette |
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Florence Noiville, a French author and journalist, is a long time staff writer for Le Monde and editor of foreign fiction for Le Monde des Livres, the literary supplement of Le Monde.
Life edit
After attending Sciences-Po university, the international business school HEC, and receiving her Masters' in Business Law, Noiville began her professional career in an American corporation, working in the financial sector. Against all odds, she moved four years later from numbers to letters, leading her career towards what had always interested her: writing and literature. Since 1994 she has worked as a journalist and literary critic for the French newspaper Le Monde. She has done numerous interviews and profiles including Saul Bellow[1], Imre Kertész[2][2], John le Carré, Mario Vargas Llosa[3], Herta Müller[4]... From 2007 to 2010, she also hosted a literary show on French television channel LCI entitled "Le Monde des Livres". Among the authors she invited to her show are: Claude Lanzmann[5], Joseph Stiglitz[6], Paul Auster[7], Umberto Eco[8]... In 2007-2008, she was a judge for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize organized by The Independent and the British Council in London.
While working for Le Monde, Florence Noiville also began writing. She started with children's books and then published a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning American author Isaac Bashevis Singer, which received a 2004 Biography Award. Later, she published The Gift, her first novel. In 2009, Florence Noiville wrote a half-essay, half-personal narrative short text about capitalism and its excesses, called "I Went to Business School and I apologize". Her second novel, The Attachment, will be published by Stock in 2012. Noiville's books are translated into 12 languages. Most of them question identity and transmission.
Personal edit
Florence Noiville is married to Martin Hirsch. They live in Paris with their three children.
Works edit
Adult Books edit
Fiction
- The Gift, Northwestern University Press, 2012 (La Donation,Stock, 2007)
- The Attachment (L'Attachement, Stock, 2012)
Non Fiction
- Isaac B. Singer, A Life, Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2006 (Isaac B. Singer, Stock, 2003)
- I Went to Business School and I Apologize, Stock, 2009
Children's Books edit
- Passions Couleurs, Gallimard Jeunesse, 1998, a conversation with Jacqueline Duhême
- Je cherche les clés du paradis, L'École des loisirs, 1999
- La Mythologie grecque, Actes Sud Junior, 2000
- Les Héros grecs, Actes Sud Junior, 2002
- La Mythologie romaine, Actes Sud Junior, 2003
- Histoires insolites des saints du calendrier, Actes Sud Junior, 2004
- Bébé Jules qui ne voulait pas naître, Gallimard Jeunesse, 2005
- Petites histoires de derrières les fourneaux, Actes Sud Junior, 2006
- Et toi, ta grand-mère ?, Actes Sud Junior, 2008
References edit
- ^ [1], Le Monde des Livres, September 8 1995.
- ^ a b [2], Le Monde des Livres, February 10, 2012. Cite error: The named reference "Imre Kertész" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ [3], Le Monde des Livres, December 9, 2011.
- ^ [4].
- ^ [5], LCI.
- ^ [6], LCI, January 15, 2009.
- ^ [7], LCI, January 22, 2009.
- ^ [8], LCI, December 3, 2009.