Paris Trilogy

The author of eleven books of fiction and non-fiction, Colombe Schneck has received prizes from the Académie Française, Madame Figaro and the Society of French Writers, as well as having been short-listed for the Renaudot, Femina, and Interallié prizes. The recipient of scholarships from the Villa Medicis in Rome and the Institut Français, as well as a Stendhal grant which allows French writers to do research and write abroad, she also spent fifteen years as a broadcaster for Canal Plus, France TV and Radio France. She is currently working on a novel about the chic, picture-perfect Swiss summer camp where she spent her holidays as a kid, and the grim secret of how it destroyed two of its children. She was born in Paris in 1966 where she still lives, is a graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and Université de Paris II with a degree in Public Law.

‘This is valuable writing. It has immense vitality. You will encounter a female narrator whose direct and bright-eyed stare at the world, and herself, is without shame or faux modesty. At the same time, it is also a deep study of existence, at various ages and stages in life.’