Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre (born 20 March 1976) is a French journalist and author.
Biography
Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre was born in
Neuilly-sur-Seine
Neuilly-sur-Seine (; literally 'Neuilly on Seine'), also known simply as Neuilly, is a commune in the department of Hauts-de-Seine in France, just west of Paris. Immediately adjacent to the city, the area is composed of mostly select residentia ...
, France in 20 March 1976, a descendant of
Princess Isabelle d’Orléans. She won five literary prizes for her first novel and was a finalist for the
Goncourt prize for début fiction. Her second novel won the
Grand Prix du Roman
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in 2016.
Clermont-Tonnerre attended the
Ecole Normale Supérieure though she didn't complete. She worked in investment banking in France and Mexico. Clermont-Tonnerre then became a columnist and journalist, currently working as the section editor on ''Point de Vue''.
Works
* ''Fourrure'',
Éditions Stock
Stock is a French publisher, a subsidiary of Hachette Livre, which itself is part of the Lagardère Group.
It was founded in the 18th century by André Cailleau, who was succeeded in 1753 by Nicolas-Bonaventure Duchesne, who published Voltaire and ...
, 2010,
* ''Le dernier des nôtres'',
Éditions Grasset, 2016
** Translated by Adriana Hunter as ''The Last of Our Kind'',
Hodder & Stoughton
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History
Early history
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, 2018,
* ''Les Jours heureux'',
Éditions Grasset, 2021,
Sources
1976 births
Living people
People from Neuilly-sur-Seine
French women journalists
French journalists
Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners
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