Anna Gavalda
Anna Gavalda ( born December 9, 1970 in Boulogne- Billancourt ) is a French writer and journalist.
Life and career
Anna Gavalda grew up with three siblings in the country. She studied literature in Paris and was established in 1999 with her short story collection I hope that someone, somewhere waiting for me, which was published in Le Dilettante small publishing house in Paris's 13th arrondissement, famous. After the resounding success of his 1999 short story collection for which they the Grand Prix RTL - Lire received in 2000, the mother of two hung her job as a French teacher in a private school on the nail. Anna Gavalda now lives with her two children in the Seine -et -Marne Melun, near Paris. She also writes for the magazine Elle.
Her first novel I've loved an autobiographical reference: Chloé, leave along with her two children by her husband, spends a few days with her father at his country house. He tries to comfort her by telling her of their own, long last love relationship. This novel was made into a film starring Daniel Auteuil 2009. In France, her second novel, together they are less alone a bestseller. He describes the coexistence of four - completely different - people in an apartment. Previously, this novel had already been filmed with Audrey Tautou.
On 11 March 2008 her third novel, La consol ante appeared in " Le Dilettante ". The novel was immediately at the forefront of best-seller list of Amazon France. Recently Gavalda wrote on the initiative of the French book club France Loisirs with users in the world's apparently first Facebook novel.
Works
Short stories
- I hope that someone, somewhere waiting for me. 2000, ISBN 3-596-15802-8 (OT Je voudrais que quelque part quelqu'un m'attende, 1999)
- Ceux qui savent comprendront. Grand Livre du Mois, 2000
- Nouvelles à chute. Collectif Magnard, 2004
- The weather is beautiful, life also. Story entitled click clack (OT Clic Clac ), taken from the short story "I wish that someone, somewhere waiting for me ', 2007, ISBN 3-8363-0059-1
Novels
- L' Échappée belle. France Loisirs, 2001
- I loved her. 2003, ISBN 3-446-20268-4 (OT Je l' aimais, 2002)
- Together we are less alone. 2005, ISBN 3-446-20612-4 (OT Ensemble, c'est tout, 2004)
- A leurs bons cœurs (with Régis Momenteau ) Cheminements, 2005
- All happiness never comes. 2008, ISBN 978-3-446-23057-6 (OT La consol ante, 2008)
- A Gifted day. 2010, ISBN 978-3-446-23489-5 (OT L ' échappée belle, 2009)
Children's Books
- 35 kilos of hope. Kinder-/Jugendbuch, 2005, ISBN 3-8270-5107- X ( 35 kilos d' espoir OT, 2002)
Films
- 2007: Together we are less alone
- 2009: I have loved