Kéthévane Davrichewy

Kéthévane Davrichewy (born April 5, 1965 in Paris ) is a French writer . She writes books for children and young people, novels and scripts.

Live and act

Kéthévane Davrichewy is the daughter of the architect Georges Davrichewy Davrichachvili and his wife Annick geb. Homériki. The grandfather Joseph Davrichachvili (1882–1975) emigrated from Gori in Georgia to Paris after 1905 . Her sister Nathéla Davrichewy is an actress and singer, the jazz trumpeter Irakli de Davrichewy is her uncle. Kéthévane Davrichewy studied literature in Paris and then film and theater studies in New York. She then worked as a journalist for newspapers and magazines and most recently until 2010 as editor-in-chief of a children's magazine at Flurus presse .

In 1996 the first book for children and young people Natsarkékia, Stories from Georgia (Contes géorgiens. Natsarkékia) with legends and stories from Georgia was published. She wrote her first novel Alles wird gut (Tout ira bien) in Paris in 2004. The novels La Mer noire and Les Séparées have won book prizes several times.

In the biography The Other Joseph (L'autre Joseph), which appeared in Paris in 2016, she described the life of her grandfather and his half-brother Josef Stalin .

Her books have been translated into German, Georgian, Italian, Dutch and Swedish.

Publications

Selection of books for children and young people

Natsarkékia, celui qui fouille la cendre et autres contes géorgiens , L'École des loisirs, Paris 1996, ISBN 978-2-211-04099-0
Je suis fâché , L'École des loisirs, Paris 1997, ISBN 978-2211045568
Un Papa en exil , L'École des loisirs, Paris 1997, ISBN 978-2211043892
La Glace au chocolat . L'École des loisirs, Paris 1998, ISBN 978-2211048163
- German translation by Ilse Strasmann: Chocolate ice cream . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-596-80304-7

Par amour . L'École des loisirs, Paris 2000, ISBN 978-2211056519

German translation by Anne Braun: A love in New York . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-596-80373-X

La Lucarne , L'École des loisirs, Paris 2005, ISBN 978-2211061537

Viens , L'École des loisirs, Paris 2006, ISBN 978-2211083218

Juke-box , L'École des loisirs, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2211086158

Les Pieds dans le plat , L'École des loisirs, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2211091794

Novels

Tout ira bien , Arléa, Paris 2004, ISBN 978-2869596702
La Mer noire , Sabine Wespieser éditeur, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2848050782
- German translation by Claudia Kalscheuer: At the Black Sea . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-014510-9
Les Séparées , Sabine Wespieser éditeur, Paris 2012, ISBN 978-2848051062
Quatre murs , Sabine Wespieser éditeur, Paris 2014, ISBN 978-2-84805-159-8
L'autre Joseph , Sabine Wespieser éditeur, Paris 2016, ISBN 978-2-84805-200-7
Barbara. Notre plus belle histoire d'amour . Éditions Tallandier, Paris 2017, ISBN 979-10-210-2149-5