Hélène Grémillon

Hélène Grémillon (born 8 February 1977 in Poitiers) is a French novelist.

Biography

Hélène Grémillon studied letters and obtained a master's degree, then turned to history, thus obtaining a DEA.

Her first novel, Le Confident, published in 2010, quickly became a best seller. Translated into twenty languages, it sold more than 250,000 copies and more than 250,000 copies in pocket edition,^[1] and appeared in some twenty countries. Le Confident is a love story, recounting the life of Camille, who receives a letter from an unknown sender after her mother's death, between the year 1938 and the year 1942.

She radically changes scenery in her second novel, La Garçonnière, a suspense novel inspired by a real drama happening in Argentina in Buenos Aires in 1987.

She married French singer Julien Clerc 17 December 2012 in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.^[2]

Works

• 2010: Le Confident, Paris, Éditions Plon, 301 p. ISBN 978-2-259-21251-9.^[3]

- Lauriers Verts de La Forêt des Livres - Prix du Premier Roman 2010

- Prix Jeune Talent Littéraire des Clubs de Lecture de Saint-Germain-en-Laye 2011

- Prix Emmanuel Roblès - Prix des lecteurs de la Ville de Blois 2011

- Prix du Premier roman de femme [fr] - Coup de Cœur du Jury 2011

- Prix Palissy 2011.^[4]

• 2013: La Garçonnière, Paris, Éditions Flammarion, coll. « Littérature française », 356 p. ISBN 978-2-08-130887-9.^[5][6]