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Murail
Murail is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Elvire Murail (born 1958), French author and screenwriter *Marie-Aude Murail Marie-Aude Murail (born May 6, 1954) is a French writer. She is best known for her numerous children and teen novels that go over a wide range of subjects including homosexuality and serious illnesses. Her father, Gerard Murail, is a poet and h ... (born 1954), French children's author * Tristan Murail (born 1947), French composer {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Aude Murail
Marie-Aude Murail (born May 6, 1954) is a French writer. She is best known for her numerous children and teen novels that go over a wide range of subjects including homosexuality and serious illnesses. Her father, Gerard Murail, is a poet and her mother, Marie-Thérèse Barrois, a journalist. One of her brothers and her younger sister also write : Lorris Murail and Elvire Murail, aka Moka. Her other older brother, Tristan Murail is a music composer. In 1973, she married Pierre Robert, an INSEE bureaucrat, with whom she had three children, Benjamin (1977), Charles (1987) and Constance (1994). Biography Murail was born in Le Havre in 1954 and has been writing since she was twelve years old. She studied modern literature at the Sorbonne University in Paris and concluded it by working on a thesis dealing with how to adapt classical novels to make them readable for young kids. She earned her "stripes" at the Editions mondiales, where she published a hundred short stories in wome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elvire Murail
Elvire Murail (born 7 June 1958, in Le Havre) is a French writer, mainly author of books for youth under the pen name Moka. The daughter of poet , she is the younger sister of writers Marie-Aude and Lorris Murail, and composer Tristan Murail. Biography A graduate of University of Cambridge, she began her literary career with adult novels. She enjoyed success with her first book, ''Escalier C'', which was brought to the cinema by Jean-Charles Tacchella in 1984. After signing four novels for adults, she entered youth literature in 1989 under the pseudonym ''Moka''. She signed with this pseudonym more than seventy novels for the youth, published mainly at in the "Mouche", "Nine" and "Medium" series. These novels were for the most part books of mysteries between police and fantasy for adolescents from 10 to 15 years old. Since 1996, she has been committed to defending a quality youth literature within the "Charte des Auteurs et Illustrateurs pour la Jeunesse" of which she was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |