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Timothée de Fombelle () is a French author and
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 for Children's Literature in Translation, 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 second duology, ''Vango''. It takes place across Europe in the 1930s. The two books are called ''Between Sky and Earth'' and ''A Prince Without Kingdom''. In 2018 Timothée de Fombelle wrote the Candlewick "fairytale world"
March 30, 2012
Timothée de Fombelle () is a French author and playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes play (theatre), plays, which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between Character (arts), characters and is intended for Theatre, theatrical performance rather than just
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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 toAfrica
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. 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 FombelleOctober 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 for Children's Literature in Translation, 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 second duology, ''Vango''. It takes place across Europe in the 1930s. The two books are called ''Between Sky and Earth'' and ''A Prince Without Kingdom''. In 2018 Timothée de Fombelle wrote the Candlewick "fairytale world"
children's novel
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'' The Book of Pearl''.
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.
Personal
His wife, Laetitia, is an actress and amateur boxer. They have a young daughter named Jeanne Elisha, born in 2004. He is aCatholic
The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwid ...
."Timothée de Fombelle: A Day That Makes Me GroMarch 30, 2012
Bibliography
Plays
* 2001: ''Le Phare'' * 2003: ''I Always Dance''Novels
* 2006: '' Toby Alone'' * 2007: '' Toby and the Secrets of the Tree'' * 2009: ''Celeste, My Planet'' * 2010: ''Between Sky and Earth'' * 2011: ''A Prince Without Kingdom'' * 2012: ''Victoria Dream'' * 2014: ''Two lives of Mr. Pearl'' * 2017: ''Neverland'' * 2018: '' The Book of Pearl'' * 2020: ''Alma, le vent se lève''See also
* '' Toby Alone'' * '' Toby and the Secrets of the Tree''References
External links
* * {{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