Timothée De Fombelle

Timothée de Fombelle () is a French author and playwright.

He has recently been recognized for his novels ''Toby Alone'' and ', and both of the sequels. His plays, which include ''Le Phare'', ''Je danse toujours'', and ''Rose Cats'', have been translated into many languages, such as German, Italian and Greek.

Biography

Timothée de Fombelle was born in 1973 in Paris, but his architect father often took him to Africa. Each summer, the family vacationed in the countryside in western France, where he and his siblings played in the woods, performed plays for their parents, and read the books in the library."Timothee de Fombelle

October 15, 2012 At the age of seventeen, he founded the theater group La Troupe des Bords de Scène for which he wrote and staged."Timothée de Fombelle

October 15, 2012"Timothée de Fombelle

2008

At first he was a literature teacher. After teaching in Paris and Vietnam, he became a playwright. He builds his own sets.

He made his debut as a playwright with ''Le Phare'', which he wrote in 1990 with actor Clément Sibony.Timothée de Fombelle: biographie et tous les livres

2012 Many of his plays, such as ''Je danse toujours'', center on loss and fragility, but he sometimes writes comedies, such as ''Rose Cats''. ''Je danse toujours'' was read at the opening of the Festival d'Avignon.

In 2006, he made his debut as an author with ''Toby Alone'', a young adult novel published by Gallimard Jeunesse. The novel met with great success and has been translated into 29 languages. It has received 20 awards, including the English Marsh Award, the Italian Andersen Award, and most French awards for children's literature. The movie rights were bought by Amber Entertainment (UK, United States). ''Toby Alone'' and its sequel ''Toby and the Secrets of the Tree'' tell the story of a boy a millimeter and a half tall who lives in an oak tree and must save it from destruction. "To me, the trees are green planets and like these trees, my planet earth is also endangered," said de Fombelle.

In March 2010, Gallimard Jeunesse published the first volume of a new duology, ''Vango''. It takes place across Europe in the 1930s. The two books are called ''Between Sky and Earth'' and ''A Prince without Kingdom''.

The English-language publisher of de Fombelle declined publishing a translation of his 2020 novel ', for being a book about trans-Atlantic slavery written by a white European man.

His wife, Laetitia, is an actress and amateur boxer. They have a young daughter named Jeanne Elisha, born in 2004. He is a Catholic."Timothée de Fombelle: A Day That Makes Me Gro

March 30, 2012

Bibliography

* 1990: ''Le Phare'', play
* 2003: ''I Always Dance'', play
* 2006: ''Toby Alone'', novel
* 2007: ''Toby and the Secrets of the Tree'', novel
* 2009: ''Celeste, My Planet'', novel
* 2010: ''Between Sky and Earth'', novel
* 2011: ''A Prince without Kingdom'', novel
* 2012: ''Victoria Dream'',"Timothée de Fombelle

October 15, 2012 novel
* 2014: ''Two lives of Mr. Pearl'', novel
* 2017: ''Neverland'', novel
* 2020: ''Alma, le vent se lève'', novel

See also

* ''Toby Alone''
* ''Toby and the Secrets of the Tree''

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fombelle, Timothee de
1973 births
Living people
20th-century French dramatists and playwrights
French fantasy writers
21st-century French dramatists and playwrights
Writers from Paris
French Roman Catholics
French writers of young adult literature