Publicity photo by Chloé Vollmer-Lo / Gallimard. Retrieved from Christelledabos (accessed: July 29, 2022).
Christelle Dabos
, b. 1980
Christelle Dabos is a French author. She was born in 1980 and grew up in Cannes on the French Riviera before making Belgium her home in 2005. Dabos was working as a librarian when she endured a significant health battle which ignited her passion for writing. Dabos began working on Les Fiancés de l’hiver (A Winter’s Promise) in 2007. During this time Dabos joined the Plume d'Argent, an online writing community, and through this community was encouraged to enter the Gallimard First Youth Novel Competition in 2012. Dabos won the literary prize in 2013 with her manuscript for A Winter’s Promise, the first novel in the Mirror Visitor series. The first two novels in the series received the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire in the French language youth category in 2016. Following significant success in France, the novels were picked up for publishing by Europa Editions and translated into multiple languages in 2018. The series was completed in French in 2019 with the final instalment translated and published in 2021.
Source:
Gallimard Jeunesse, available at Babelio website (accessed: July 28, 2022).
Kantor, Emma, "Europa Crosses into YA territory with A Winter’s Promise", Publishers Weekly, 2018 (accessed: July 28, 2022).
Bio prepared by Mary Appleby, University of New England, Australia. maryappleby99@gmail.com or mappleb4@myune.edu.au
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