About Sarah's Key Author

  

Sarah’s Key Author

Tatiana de Rosnay is still alive, having been born on September 28, 1961. Her parents, Stella Jebb and Jol de Rosnay, gave birth to her. In the early 1980s, she moved to England and earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of East Anglia in Norwich. She worked as a press officer when she returned to Paris in 1984, then as a journalist and literary critic for Psychologies Magazine. She is descended from English, French, and Russian ancestors. Her father, Jol de Rosnay, is a French scientist, and her grandfather, Gatan de Rosnay, is a painter. They were both born in Mauritius. Natalia Rachewska, Tatiana's paternal great-grandmother, was a Russian actress who directed the Leningrad Pushkin Theatre from 1925 to 1949.

 

Tatiana worked as a writer in Paris for Vanity Fair, Elle, "Psychologies," and JDD magazines before becoming a novelist. Tatiana de Rosnay is the author of more than ten books, including the New York Times bestseller SARAH'S KEY, which has sold over 11 million copies in 44 countries. She was considered one of the best ten fiction writers in Europe, alongside Dan Brown, Stephenie Meyer, and Stieg Larsson. She wrote twelve French books and six English novels. She also collaborated with screenwriter Pierre-Yves Lebert on the series Family Affair, for which she co-wrote two episodes. Sarah's Key is her most popular book. In French, the book has sold over three million copies and about two million in English. Serge Joncour's French film "Sarah's Key," starring Kristin Scott Thomas as Julia, was based on this book. Le Figaro also listed her as the seventh most read French author.

 

Sarah's Key, her ninth novel and the first written in English, changed everything. "I was astonished that it took my husband so long to read the first 30 pages when I presented them to him. He argued, 'But Tatiana, it's in English!' I hadn't even realized...” Perhaps it was because Julia Jarmond, the novel's protagonist, is an American journalist in her forties who speaks English as her first language.

 

  

Quote: “You're playing with Pandora's box. Sometimes it's better not to open it. Sometimes, it's better not to know.”

 

Important events: 

Prix des lecteurs du livre de Poche

Le Choix des Libraires

Prix Gabrielle- d'Estrie 

 

Bibliography

http://www.tatianaderosnay.com/index.php/bio 

https://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm/author_number/1776/tatiana-de-rosnay

Sources

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/305400.Tatiana_de_Rosnay

http://www.tatianaderosnay.com/index.php/bio 

https://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm/author_number/1776/tatiana-de-rosnay