Gaëlle Josse

Gaelle Josse in 2019

Gaelle Josse (born 1960) is a French poet and novelist. She has written four novels till date. She has won a number of literary prizes and her work has been translated into several languages.^[1]

Works

• Les heures silencieuses (The Quiet Hours, 2011)
• Nos vies désaccordées (Our Out of Tune Lives, 2012) - 2013 Prix Alain-Fournier
• Noces de neige (Snow Wedding, 2013)
• Le dernier gardien d’Ellis Island (The Last Guardian of Ellis Island) - Grand Livre du Mois Literary Prize, EU Prize for Literature
• L'Ombre de nos nuits (The shadow of our nights, 2016)
• Un été à quatre mains (A summer for four hands, 2017)
• Une longue impatience (A long impatience, 2018)
• Une femme en contre-jour (A woman against the light, 2019)

Formerly a resident of New Caledonia, Josse now lives in Paris.

Decorations

• Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters (2016)^[2]

References

1. "Bio". Archived from the original on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2015-06-26.
2. "Nomination dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres janvier 2016 - Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication". Archived from the original on 2016-06-05. Retrieved 2016-04-03.