Valentine Goby

Valentine Goby (Livre sur la place, Nancy, 2011)

Valentine Goby (born in 1974 in Grasse) is a French writer.

Biography

After studying at Sciences Po, she lived three years in Asia, in Hanoi and in Manila, where she worked for humanitarian associations with street children. She started her professional career at Accenture where she worked in Human Resources from 1999 to 2001. She never stopped writing, and published her first novel in 2002 at Éditions Gallimard: La Note sensible. She became a teacher of letters and theater, a trade she worked in college for eight years before devoting herself entirely to writing, and to numerous projects around books: workshops, meetings, conferences, residencies of writing School, media library, university. She is currently a lecturer at Sciences Po in literature and writing workshops, literary consultant for the book festival of Metz 2017, and from September 2016 on Thursday in La Croix newspaper. Besides her 12 publications in general literature, she writes an important work for the youth.

Valentine Goby is the winner of the Hachette Foundation, Young Writers Scholarship 2002 and was awarded the Mediterranean Youth Prize, the prix du premier roman de l'université d'Artois, the prix Palissy, the prix René Fallet and the Prix premier roman de Culture et bibliothèques pour tous de la Sarthe in 2003. She has since received numerous awards for each of her novels, in general literature and in youth literature.

She was awarded the 2014 prix des libraires 2014 for her novel Kinderzimmer[1] published at Actes Sud. The same novel received the literary prize of high school students of Ile-de-France awarded on 20 March 2015 during the Book Fair[2] as well as 10 other awards. It has been translated or is being translated into six languages in addition to French.

She has been a columnist for the newspaper La Croix since September 2016.

Valentine Goby has been President of the Permanent Council of Writers since 2014 and Vice-President of The Charter of Youth Authors and Illustrators. She is Knight of Arts and Letters.

Works

Prizes

References

  1. 1 2 Roman lauréat du prix 2014, on the site of the Nouvel Observateur, 18 March 2014.
  2. ↑ "Valentine Goby reçoit le prix littéraire des lycéens d'IDF" (in French). Retrieved 7 February 2017.
  3. ↑ Fiche du livre, sur le site de l'éditeur.
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