Valérie Zenatti

Writer, screenwriter, and translator, Valérie Zenatti was born in Nice in 1970 and spent her entire adolescence in Israel, a formative experience that has partly shaped her work. She has authored a dozen books for École des Loisirs, several of which have won awards and been translated into seventeen languages, including Quand j’étais soldate and Une bouteille dans la mer de Gaza, which was adapted into a film by Thierry Binisti in 2012, with Zenatti co-writing the screenplay. She has also published five books with Éditions de l’Olivier, including Jacob, Jacob (L’Olivier 2014, Prix du Livre Inter). Her latest book, Dans le faisceau des vivants (L’Olivier 2019, Prix Essai France Télévisions), reflects on her relationship with Aharon Appelfeld, whose works she has been translating into French since 2004.

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