Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre

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

Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre
Born	20 March 1976 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Known for	Novelist

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
  • Translated by Adriana Hunter as The Last of Our Kind, Hodder & Stoughton, 2018, ISBN 978-1473658042
• Les Jours heureux, Éditions Grasset, 2021, ISBN 9782246861911