Gaëlle Josse

Gaelle Josse (born 1960) is a French poet and novelist. She has written four novels till date. She has won a number of literary prizes and her work has been translated into several languages.^[1]

Gaelle Josse in 2019

Works

• Les heures silencieuses (The Quiet Hours, 2011)
• Nos vies désaccordées (Our Out of Tune Lives, 2012) - 2013 Prix Alain-Fournier
• Noces de neige (Snow Wedding, 2013)
• Le dernier gardien d’Ellis Island (The Last Guardian of Ellis Island) - Grand Livre du Mois Literary Prize, EU Prize for Literature
• L'Ombre de nos nuits (The shadow of our nights, 2016)
• De vives voix. Le temps qu'il fait. (With loud voices. The weather that there is., 2016)
• Un été à quatre mains (A summer for four hands, 2017)
• Vermeer entre deux songes. (Vermeer between two dreams., 2017)
• Une longue impatience (A long impatience, 2018)
• Une femme en contre-jour (A woman against the light, 2019)
• Ce matin-là (That morning, 2021)
• La nuit des pères (The night of the fathers, 2022)
• Et recoudre le soleil (And sew up the sun, 2022)
• À quoi songent-ils, ceux que le sommeil fuit ? (What are those who loose sleep dreaming about?, 2024)
• Le fil entre nos cœurs. (The wire between our hearts., 2024)
• De nos blessures un royaume. (From our wounds a kingdom., 2025)

Formerly a resident of New Caledonia, Josse now lives in Paris.

Decorations

• Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters (2016)^[2]