Christelle Dabos Explained

Christelle Dabos
Birth Date:1980
Birth Place:Cannes, Côte d'Azur, France
Genre:Fantasy
Notable Works:The Mirror Visitor quartet
Awards:Gallimard-RTL-Télérama First Novel (2013)
Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire - Francophone Youth Novel (2016)
Years Active:2013–present
Occupation:Writer

Christelle Dabos (born 1980) is a French author best known for The Mirror Visitor quartet, a fantasy series that has sold over a million copies at Gallimard Jeunesse and has been translated into twenty different languages. Dabos achieved success when her debut novel, A Winter's Promise, was awarded first place at the 2013 Gallimard-RTL-Télérama First Novel competition.

Life and career

Christelle Dabos was born in 1980 in Cannes on the Côte d'Azur[1] and grew up in a family of musicians. The author moved across the border to a village near La Louvière in Wallonia,[2] Belgium,[3] in 2005 and unsuccessfully sought work as a librarian.

Dabos began writing The Mirror Visitor quartet in 2007, but shortly after she was diagnosed with cancer in her jaw and had to undergo surgery and jaw reconstruction.[4] In her convalescence, she turned to the website Plume d'argent, a repository for fanfiction and original fiction where writers could exchange feedback. After becoming an administrator on the platform, Dabos was encouraged by her fellow writers to submit her first novel, the first volume of The Mirror Visitor quartet entitled A Winter's Promise, to the Gallimard-RTL-Télérama First Novel competition, which she subsequently won in 2013.[5] [6] The novel was also named Best Book of the Year by critics and publications in the United States, including Entertainment Weekly, Bustle, Publishers Weekly, and Chicago Review of Books. The Mirror Visitor quartet narrates the adventures of Ophelia, a girl with the power to read the past of objects as well as the ability to pass through mirrors. The fantastical world in which the story is set includes 21 major arks, the remains of Earth after a cataclysmic event shattered it. Each ark is presided over by an ancestral family spirit and inhabited by people with unique abilities. The story begins when Ophelia is promised in marriage to Thorn, a taciturn man from a far-away ark called the Pole.[7] [8] [9] The title of the series (La Passe-miroir in French) is inspired by Le Passe-muraille, a literary work by the French writer Marcel Aymé.[10]

In 2015, Dabos published at Gallimard Jeunesse the second novel in the series, The Missing of Clairdelune, which along with A Winter's Promise was awarded the Grand prix de l'Imaginaire in the category Francophone Youth Novel in 2016.[11] The third and fourth instalments of the series were released in 2017 and 2019, respectively.[12] [13] [14] [15] The series was compared by the national press to Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling and His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman.[16] The novels were subsequently released in English translated by Hildegarde Serle at Europa Editions in 2018,[17] 2019,[18] 2020,[19] and 2022.[20] The series has sold over a million copies and has been translated in twenty languages.[21] The book cover illustrations are by Laurent Gapaillard.[22]

In 2022, Dabos published Et L'imagination prend feu as part of the Secrets d'écriture collection published by Le Robert.[23] [24] In 2023, Dabos published Here, and Only Here at Gallimard Jeunesse in French and at Europa Editions in English, translated by Hildegard Serle.[25] Writing Here, and Only Here, Dabos was "strongly influenced by magic realism",[26] especially South American authors like Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende and José Donoso.

Publications

The Mirror Visitor quartet

  1. A Winter's Promise, translated by Hildegarde Serle, Europa Editions, 2018
    • Les fiancés de l'hiver, Gallimard Jeunesse, Collection Hors Série, 2013
  2. The Missing of Clairdelune, translated by Hildegarde Serle, Europa Editions, 2019
    • Les disparus du Clairdelune, Gallimard Jeunesse, Collection Romans Ado, 2015
  3. The Memory of Babel, translated by Hildegarde Serle, Europa Editions, 2020
    • La mémoire de Babel, Gallimard Jeunesse, Collection Hors Série, 2017
  4. The Storm of Echoes, translated by Hildegarde Serle, Europa Editions, 2021
    • La Tempête des échos, Gallimard Jeunesse, Collection Romans Ado, 2019

Standalone novels

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2019-12-24 . Christelle Dabos répond aux questions du club de lecture du HuffPost . 2024-05-31 . Le HuffPost . fr.
  2. News: 2019-11-29 . Christelle Dabos, de la fanfiction au phénomène littéraire . 2024-05-31 . Le Monde.fr . fr.
  3. News: Par ici les sortilèges Rencontre avec Christelle Dabos. Libération.fr. 27 April 2018. fr.
  4. News: 2019-11-29 . Christelle Dabos, de la fanfiction au phénomène littéraire . 2024-05-31 . Le Monde.fr . fr.
  5. News: 2019-11-29 . Christelle Dabos, de la fanfiction au phénomène littéraire . 2024-05-31 . Le Monde.fr . fr.
  6. News: Christelle Dabos, lauréate du prix du premier roman jeunesse Gallimard-RTL-Télérama. Télérama.fr. 27 April 2018. fr-FR.
  7. Web site: Roussel . Frédérique . Par ici les sortilèges Rencontre avec Christelle Dabos . 2024-05-31 . Libération . fr.
  8. Web site: A Winter's Promise Book One of The Mirror Visitor Quartet - Christelle Dabos . 2024-05-31 . Europa Editions . en.
  9. Web site: 2022-05-31 . The Mirror Visitor Series by Christelle Dabos . 2024-05-31 . Beguiled By Books . en-US.
  10. News: "La passe-miroir" de Christelle Dabos, lauréat du premier roman jeunesse. RTL.fr. 27 April 2018. fr-FR. 28 April 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180428011930/http://www.rtl.fr/culture/arts-spectacles/laissez-vous-tenter-la-passe-miroir-de-christelle-dabos-laureat-du-premier-roman-jeunesse-7771224238. dead.
  11. News: Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire 2016 – Alter1fo. 11 May 2016. Alter1fo. 27 April 2018. fr-FR.
  12. Web site: La Passe-miroir – Romans Ado – Grand format littérature – Livres pour enfants et éditeur de littérature jeunesse – Gallimard Jeunesse. www.gallimard-jeunesse.fr. fr. 27 April 2018. 27 October 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171027130645/http://www.gallimard-jeunesse.fr/Catalogue/GALLIMARD-JEUNESSE/Grand-format-litterature/Romans-Ado/La-Passe-miroir/(group)/author. dead.
  13. News: Quatre raisons de découvrir La Passe-Miroir, une fascinante saga fantastique. 1 June 2017. madmoiZelle.com. 27 April 2018. fr-fr.
  14. Web site: Romans La Passe-miroir, tome 4, Grand format littérature Gallimard Jeunesse . 2024-05-31 . www.gallimard-jeunesse.fr.
  15. Web site: Parutions. Dabos. Auteur Christelle. La Passe-miroir. fr-FR. 12 March 2020.
  16. Web site: " La Passe-miroir ", le succès transgénérationnel de Christelle Dabos. Le Monde.fr. fr. 27 April 2018.
  17. Web site: A Winter's Promise Book One of The Mirror Visitor Quartet. Europa Editions. en. 18 June 2019.
  18. Web site: The Missing of Clairdelune. Europa Editions. en. 18 June 2019.
  19. Web site: The Memory of Babel. Europa Editions. en. 12 March 2020.
  20. Web site: The Storm of Echoes Book Four of the Mirror Visitor Quartet - Christelle Dabos . 2024-05-31 . Europa Editions . en.
  21. Web site: littéraire . Gladys Marivat pour Lire Magazine . 2023-04-28 . PORTRAIT. Christelle Dabos : « Terminer l’histoire de La Passe-miroir c’était comme mourir » . 2024-05-31 . Ouest-France.fr . fr.
  22. Web site: Shukla . Nils . 2023-10-24 . Interview with Christelle Dabos (HERE, AND ONLY HERE) . 2024-05-31 . Fantasy-Hive . en.
  23. Book: Dabos, Christelle . Et l'imagination prend feu - Les secrets d'écriture de Christelle Dabos . 2022-10-27 . Le Robert . French.
  24. Book: Et l'imagination prend feu - Christelle Dabos - Le Robert - Grand format - Librairie Gallimard PARIS . fr.
  25. Web site: Here, and Only Here - Christelle Dabos . 2024-05-31 . Europa Editions . en.
  26. Web site: Shukla . Nils . 2023-10-24 . Interview with Christelle Dabos (HERE, AND ONLY HERE) . 2024-05-31 . Fantasy-Hive . en.

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