Pauline Delabroy-Allard

Pauline Delabroy-Allard (born 1988) is a French writer. Her first novel, All About Sarah, was published by Penguin Books in 2018.[1][2] Delabroy-Allard received numerous awards for her novel, .[3]

Pauline Delabroy-Allard
Born1988
NationalityFrench
Known forWriter

In an interview with The Guardian, Delabroy-Allard revealed: "She wrote it to get the story out of her head and then stuck it in a drawer." And said: “I didn’t expect anyone would want to publish it.”[4]

Biography

Pauline Delabroy-Allard is the daughter of writer Jean Delabroy. After studying classics, she was a bookseller, an usherette in a cinema, and, at the age of 23, a librarian in a high school.[5]

In 2013, she co-authored a first book with Kim Hullot-Guiot, La littérature expliquée aux matheux.[6] She also contributes to the online magazine En attendant Nadeau.[5]

That same year she released an acclaimed short film, « Voyage en Mère inconnue » (Journey to an Unknown Mother), about her life as a single mother, unexpectedly abandoned by her first partner, the father of her eldest daughter.[7]

In 2018, her first novel, published by Éditions de Minuit, "Ça raconte Sarah" (All about Sarah), received significant critical acclaim,[8] and the Prix des Booksellers de Nancy / Le Point and the Prix Envoyé par la poste.[9] It was also shortlisted for the second Goncourt,[10] as well as for the Prix Goncourt des lycéens.[11] She is the winner of the Goncourt List Prize: the Polish choice awarded in Krakow by a jury of Polish students of French language and literature,[12] then the Goncourt List Prize: the choice of Romania.[13] On November 20, she won the Prix du Style[14] and on December 11, she received the France Culture-Télérama student novel prize.[15]In March 2019, the writer also received the Liste Goncourt/Le choix de la Suisse award for this novel.[16]

References
  1. "Pauline Delabroy-Allard". www.penguin.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
  2. "All About Sarah by Pauline Delabroy-Allard review – love as an extreme sport". The Guardian. 2020-03-09. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
  3. "They Say Sarah by Pauline Delabroy-Allard: 9781635429855 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
  4. Armitstead, Claire; Wroe, Nicholas; Cain, Sian; Cuttle, Jade; Willsher, Kim (2020-03-07). "'My family are too frightened to read my book': meet Europe's most exciting authors". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
  5. "Berkana, librería LGTBIQ+ - Pauline Delabroy-Allard". www.libreriaberkana.com. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
  6. Delabroy-Allard, Pauline; Hullot-Guiot, Kim (2013). La littérature expliquée aux matheux. Paris: Edigo. ISBN 978-2-35933-187-5.
  7. "Pauline Delabroy-Allard | owlapps". www.owlapps.net. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
  8. "Ça raconte Sarah". www.leseditionsdeminuit.fr. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
  9. Culturebox, 30 août 2018
  10. Clément Solym, ActuaLitté, 2 octobre 2018
  11. Antoine Oury, Actualitté,
  12. "Pauline Delabroy-Allard laureatką nagrody „Lista Goncourtów: Polski wybór" 2018". www.gazetaprawna.pl (in Polish). 2018-10-28. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
  13. "CHOIX GONCOURT DE LA ROUMANIE 2018 - Pauline Delabroy-Allard". lepetitjournal.com (in French). Retrieved 2023-04-04.
  14. "Pauline Delabroy-Allard, Prix du Style 2018 pour Ça raconte Sarah". ActuaLitté.com (in French). Retrieved 2023-04-04.
  15. Bichler, Camille (2018-12-11). "Urgence et deuil : l'amour fou selon Pauline Delabroy-Allard obtient le Prix du Roman des étudiants 2019". France Culture (in French). Retrieved 2023-04-04.
  16. Joëlle Brack "Le choix Goncourt de la Suisse"
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