Timothée de Fombelle

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Timothée de Fombelle at the Salon du livre de Paris in March 2010

Timothée de Fombelle (* 1973 in France ) is a French writer and playwright . His two-part novel Tobie Lolness was widely recognized. His plays ( Le Phare , Je danse toujours , Rose Cats , ...) were performed, edited and translated. Since 2008 he has been working with the Paul les oiseaux ballet company and the choreographer Valérie Rivière.

Life

At the age of 17, Timothée de Fombelle founded a theater group for which he wrote and staged his own plays.

Le phare (German: The Lighthouse ), created in collaboration with the actor Clément Sibony, received the Prix ​​du Souffleur in 2002 and made de Fombelle known as a playwright . His plays are often about loss and fragility ( Je danse toujours , 2003), but he is also not afraid to tackle comedy ( Pink Cats , 2008). Today he is one of the most renowned contemporary French writers.

With the youth book Tobie Lolness , published by Gallimard Jeunesse, he turned to the novel and achieved worldwide success. The novel has been translated into 26 languages ​​and has won numerous prizes, including most of the French prizes for young people's literature, as well as the Italian Andersen Prize. Amber Entertainment acquired the film rights. Tobie Lolness tells the adventures of Tobie and his relatives, who are only one and a half millimeters tall and live in a world of trees. In addition to the literary structure of the novel, the success of this work rests on the richness of the story and the refined analogy between this tree world, sick of human folly, and the problems of the real world.

Céleste, ma planète was printed in the youth magazine Je bouquine in 2007 and later published as a book by Gallimard Jeunesse. The first volume of a new novel, Vango , was published in March 2010, also by Gallimard. This saga throws a young hero, Vango, into the whirlpool of the 1930s. The second volume followed in 2011.

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