Soazig Aaron (born 1949,

Rennes Rennes (; br, Roazhon ; Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department ...

) is a French author.

Biography

After studying history, Soazig Aaron worked for a few years in a bookshop in Paris. Today, she lives in Rennes in Brittany. Her first novel, ''Le Non de Klara'', appeared in 2002. The author, who is not Jewish, recounts in a fictitious diary the fate of Klara, a survivor of

Auschwitz Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...

who returned in 1945 to Paris, trying to resume a normal life. For this work, Soazig Aaron received the

prix Goncourt du premier roman The Prix Goncourt (french: Le prix Goncourt, , ''The Goncourt Prize'') is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year". The prize carries a symbolic reward o ...

and the prix Emmanuel Roblès of the city of

Blois Blois ( ; ) is a commune and the capital city of Loir-et-Cher department, in Centre-Val de Loire, France, on the banks of the lower Loire river between Orléans and Tours. With 45,898 inhabitants by 2019, Blois is the most populated city of the ...

in 2002. These two prizes reward a first novel. In 2002, it also obtained the Prix du Roman of the city of

Carhaix Carhaix-Plouguer (; br, Karaez-Plougêr ), commonly known as just Carhaix (), is a Communes of France, commune in the Departments of France, French department of Finistère, region of Brittany (administrative region), Brittany, France.

. In 2004, ''Le Non de Klara'' was crowned with the Grand Prix des Libraires. In Germany, the novel was awarded the

Geschwister-Scholl-Preis The Geschwister-Scholl-Preis is a literary prize which is awarded annually by the Bavarian chapter of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels and the city of Munich. Every year, a book is honoured, which "shows intellectual independence and s ...

. Her second novel, ''La Sentinelle tranquille sous la lune'', was published by

éditions Gallimard Éditions Gallimard (; formerly Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française (1911–1919) and Librairie Gallimard (1919–1961) is one of the leading French book publishers. In 2003 it and its subsidiaries published 1,418 titles. Founded by Gasto ...

in 2010.

Works

*2002: ''Le Non de Klara'', éditions Maurice Nadeau, *2010: ''La Sentinelle tranquille sous la lune'', Gallimard

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