Florence Seyvos (born 1967 in
Lyon) is a French
novelist, and screenwriter. Her films have been successful in French and in English.
Life
Seyvos was born in Lyon in 1967 and lived in northern France. Seyvos published her first book for children after winning first prize in a short story competition.
[Florence Seyvos]
Pushkin Press, Retrieved 3 October 2016 She has also written novels including ''Les Apparitions'' which was awarded the
Prix Goncourt du premier roman) and ''Un Garçon Incassable''.
Seyvos collaborates on many of her screenplays with
Noémie Lvovsky
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Life and career
Born in Paris in 1964, Lvovsky is the daughter of Jewish parents who emigrated from Ukraine to flee pogroms.
She studied cinema at L ...
, including
Sentiments (no)
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and
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Fictional entities
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* Camille Wallaby, a character in Alfred Hedgehog
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Films
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.
She has lived in the
Ardennes
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, in
Ivory Coast
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,
Le Havre and Paris.
Awards
*1987 Lauréate du PJE
*1995
Prix Goncourt First Novel
* Prix France Télévision
Works
*''Gratia'',
Éditions de l'Olivier, 1992,
*''Les Apparitions'', Éditions de l'Olivier, 1995,
*''L'Abandon'', Éditions de l'Olivier, 2002,
Young adult
*''Nanouk et moi'', L'Ecole des Loisirs, 2010,
*''L'Ami du Petit Tyrannosaure'', l'École des loisirs, 2005,
*''Pochee'', l'École des loisirs, 1998,
Filmography
*1997 ''Les années lycée: Petites '' (TV)
*1999 ''Life Doesn't Scare Me''
*2003 ''Feelings''
*2007 ''Faut que ça danse!''
References
External links
"Florence Seyvos" ''France Culture''
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1967 births
French novelists
Mass media people from Lyon
Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman recipients
Living people
French screenwriters