Valérie Perrin Explained
Valérie Perrin |
Occupation: | Novelist, screenwriter, photographer |
Notable Works: | Les Oubliés du dimanche (2015), Changer l'eau des fleurs (2018) |
Valérie Perrin (born 19 January 1967, in Remiremont) is a French novelist, screenwriter, and photographer. She is best known as the author of the novels Les Oubliés du dimanche (2015), and Changer l'eau des fleurs (2018), and for screenwriting on the films Salaud, on t'aime (2014), Un plus une (2015), and Everyone's Life (2017). Her works have been translated into over 30 languages.
Life and career
Perrin was born 19 January 1967 in Remiremont, France, and grew up in Burgundy in a family of footballers. She moved to Paris in 1986, working odd jobs before settling with Claude Lelouch, whom she had met in 2006 after writing him a letter.[1] [2] She began screenwriting when she collaborated with Lelouch for 2014 French drama Salaud, on t'aime. She would go on to collaborate with him for the screenplays of Un plus une (2015) and Everyone's Life (2017).[3] [4] [5]
After having worked on Salaud, on t'aime, Perrin published her first novel Les Oubliés du dimanche, published by Éditions Albin Michel in 2015 and Le Livre de Poche in 2017. The book was a success, being awarded a Booksellers Choice Award, a Chronos Award, the National Lion's Prize for Literature, the Prix du Premier Roman in 2016.[6] [7]
Perrin's following novel, Changer l'eau des fleurs, was published in 2018 by Albin Michel and Les Livres de Poche in 2019.[8] In 2020, it was translated into English by Hildegarde Serle for Europa Editions, where the novel became an international success.[9] [10] Her novel Trois, was published in 2021.[11] She married Lelouch in a civil ceremony in Paris in 2023.[12]
Literary work
Novels
- Les Oubliés du dimanche, Éditions Albin Michel (2015), Le Livre de Poche (2017), Europa Editions (2023)
- Changer l'eau des fleurs, Éditions Albin Michel (2018), Les Livres de Poche (2019), Europa Editions (2020)
- Trois, Éditions Albin Michel (2021), Les Livres de Poche (2022), Europa Editions (2022)
Short stories
- 24 hours together (with Wilfried N'sondé and Brigitte Giraud), Editións ActuSF, 2019
Screenplays
Awards
- Forgotten on Sunday
- National Lion's Prize for Literature, 2016
- Chronos award, 2016
- Poulet-Malassis Prize, 2016
- Fresh Water for Flowers
- Maison de la Presse, 2018[13]
- Les Livres de Poche Reader's Prize, 2019
Notes and References
- News: Valérie Perrin : "Pour Claude Lelouch, j'ai tout quitté !" . 9 October 2023 . Public.fr . 3 February 2019 . fr.
- Liger . Baptiste . April 2021 . Un Coer Simple . Lire . 53 . 22 August 2023 . fr.
- News: Gary . Nicholas . 28 July 2020 . Valérie Perrin: "I write while playing with my reader, while thinking of him." . 21 August 2023 . Actualitte.
- News: Reboulleau . Laetitia . Couple mythique : Claude Lelouch et Valérie Perrin, l'amour envers et contre tous . 9 October 2023 . Yahoo! Style . 19 January 2022 . fr-FR.
- News: Valérie Perrin e Claude Lelouch, un amore nato grazie al cinema . 9 October 2023 . Libreri Amo . 28 July 2021 . it-IT.
- News: Lemoine . Christophe . 20 September 2019 . Valérie Perrin's second novel on the winners of the Pocket Book Readers' Prize . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230823120705/https://actu.fr/normandie/deauville_14220/le-deuxieme-roman-valerie-perrin-palmares-prix-lecteurs-livre-poche_27416338.html . 23 August 2023 . 22 August 2023 . Actu.fr.
- News: La biographie de Valérie Perrin . 9 October 2023 . Gala.fr . Prisma Média . 22 June 2023 . fr.
- News: Littérature - Valérie Perrin, une Gueugnonnaise qui change l'eau des fleurs à Guillaume Musso . 9 October 2023 . L'infoRmateur de Bourgogne . 28 August 2019 . fr-FR.
- News: Ginori . Anais . Valérie Perrin: "Ora il mio bestseller diventa una serie tv" . 9 October 2023 . La Repubblica . 1 July 2021 . it.
- News: Knowles . Madeleine . Time Passing: A Conversation with Valérie Perrin . 22 August 2023 . NB Magazine.
- News: Bajos . Sandrine . Livres : Valérie Perrin réussit la passe de «Trois» . 9 October 2023 . Le Parisien . 9 April 2021 . fr-FR.
- News: Minucci . Emanuela . Parigi, Claude Lelouch e Valérie Perrin sposi: il regista e la scrittrice hanno detto sì . 9 October 2023 . La Stampa . 18 June 2023 . it.
- News: Solym . Clement . 30 May 2018 . The Maison de la Presse 2018 Prize goes to Valérie Perrin . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230823122419/https://actualitte.com/article/18975/prix-litteraires/le-prix-maison-de-la-presse-2018-revient-a-valerie-perrin . 23 August 2023 . 23 August 2023 . Actualitte . fr.