Céline Curiol

Céline Curiol (born 1975) is a French journalist and writer.[1]

Céline Curiol at the Salon du Livre in Paris in 2010.

She was born in Lyon and was educated at the École supérieure des techniques avancées and the Sorbonne. Curiol moved to New York City where she was a correspondent for the BBC and Radio France. In 2005, she published her first novel Voix sans issue (Voice over); it has been translated into several languages.[1] It was a winner of the French Voices Award, and a finalist for the Best Translated Book Award[2] and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2009.[3]

Most recently, she has been living at the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto.[1] Curiol has also lived in London and Buenos Aires.[3]

Selected works[1]
  • Permission, novel (2007)
  • Route rouge, travelogue (2007)
  • Voice Over, novel, translated by Sam Richard (2008)
  • Exil intermédiaire, novel (2009)
  • L'ardeur des pierres, novel (2012)
  • Un Quinze août à Paris, essay (2014)

References
  1. "Céline Curiol". Actes Sud. Archived from the original on 2014-06-25. Retrieved 2015-01-13.(in French)
  2. "'2009 Best Translated Book Awards' to be Announced on Feb. 19". University of Rochester. February 13, 2009.
  3. "Céline Curiol". maison des écrivains et de la littérature.(in French)



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