Charlotte

Prix Renaudot · 2014 · Winner

GallimardAugust 21, 2014Literary Fiction Biography & Memoir

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Prix Renaudot	2014	Winner

About This Book

A novelistic biography of German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon, who created 769 works of art while hiding in the South of France before being murdered at Auschwitz in 1943, written in short verse-like paragraphs.

About the Author

David FoenkinosFR

David Foenkinos is a French novelist born in 1974 in Paris. He is one of France's most popular and prolific contemporary novelists, known for his blend of melancholy, humor, and emotional directness. His novel La Délicatesse (2009) became a major bestseller and was adapted into a film that he co-directed with his brother Stéphane. Read more →