Tatiana de Rosnay (born 28 September 1961) is a French writer.

Life and career

Tatiana de Rosnay was born on 28 September 1961 in the suburbs of Paris. She is of English, French and

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descent. Her father is French scientist

Joël de Rosnay Joël de Rosnay, (born 12 June 1937) is a Mauritius-born French scientific and writer, presently President of Biotics International, a consulting company specialized in the impact of new technologies on industries, and Special Advisor to the P ...

, her grandfather was painter Gaëtan de Rosnay and they were born in

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. Tatiana's paternal great-grandmother was Russian actress Natalia Rachewskïa, director of the Leningrad Pushkin Theatre from 1925 to 1949. Tatiana's mother is English, Stella Jebb, daughter of diplomat and former Secretary-General of the United Nations,

Gladwyn Jebb Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn (25 April 1900 – 24 October 1996) was a prominent British civil servant, diplomat and politician who served as the acting secretary-general of the United Nations between 1945 and 1946. Early ...

, and great-great-granddaughter of

Isambard Kingdom Brunel Isambard Kingdom Brunel (; 9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859) was a British civil engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history," "one of the 19th-century engineering giants," and "on ...

, the British engineer. Tatiana is also the niece of historian Hugh Thomas. Tatiana was raised in Paris and then in Boston, when her father taught at

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the m ...

in the 1970s. She moved to England in the early 1980s and obtained a bachelor's degree in English literature at the

University of East Anglia The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and 26 schools of study. The annual income of the institution f ...

, in

Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. As the seat of the See of Norwich, with ...

. On her return to Paris in 1984, she was a press officer, then became a journalist and literary critic for Psychologies Magazine. Since 1992, de Rosnay has published twelve novels in French and six in English. She has also worked on the series ''

Family Affairs ''Family Affairs'' is a British soap opera that aired on Channel 5. It debuted on 30 March 1997, the day of the launch of said channel and was the first programme broadcast on the channel. It was screened as five thirty-minute episodes per w ...

'' for which she has written two episodes with the screenwriter Pierre-Yves Lebert. This series was broadcast on TF1 during the summer of 2000. In 2007, de Rosnay published her most popular novel, ''

Sarah's Key ''Sarah's Key'' (french: Elle s'appelait Sarah, links=no) is a 2010 French drama film directed and co-written by Gilles Paquet-Brenner. The film is an adaptation of the 2006 novel with the same title by Tatiana de Rosnay. The film alternates b ...

''. The book has sold over eleven million copies in the world. In 2009 the book was adapted into the French film ''

'' by Serge Joncour, with Kristin Scott Thomas as Julia. In January 2010, several French magazines issued a ranking of the top French novelists, placing de Rosnay at number eight. In January 2011, ''

Le Figaro ''Le Figaro'' () is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It is headquartered on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. The oldest national newspaper in France, ''Le Figaro'' is one of three French newspapers of r ...

'' magazine published a ranking of the top ten most read French authors. This collation positioned de Rosnay at fifth.

Published works

Novels

* ''L'Appartement témoin'', 1992 * ''Mariés, pères de famille'': Romans d'adultères, Plon, Paris, 1995. * ''Le Dîner des ex'': Roman, 1996 * ''Le Cœur d'une autre'', 1998 * ''Le Voisin'', 2000 * ''La Mémoire des Murs'', 2003 * ''Spirales'', 2004 *''Elle s'appelait Sarah'' (trans. ''

''), 2007 *''Boomerang'', 2009 (trans. ''A Secret Kept'', 2010) * ''Moka'', 2009 * ''Rose'', H. d'Ormesson, Paris, 2011. ** ''The House I Loved'', St. Martin's Press, New York, 2012. The main theme of this novel is Baron

Haussmann's renovation of Paris Haussmann's renovation of Paris was a vast public works programme commissioned by Emperor Napoleon III and directed by his prefect of Seine, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, between 1853 and 1870. It included the demolition of medieval neighbourh ...

and the consequences for the inhabitants of the areas to be reconstructed. *''À l’encre russe'', Librairie Générale Française, Paris, 2013. **''The Other Story'', St. Martin's Press, New York, 2014. *''Sentinelle de la pluie,'' Héloïse d'Ormesson, Paris, 2018. **''The Rain Watcher'', St. Martin's Press, New York, 2018. *''Les Fleurs de l'ombre'', Pocket, Paris, DL 2021. **''Flowers of Darkness,'' Martin's Press, New York, 2021.

Short story collection

*''Son carnet rouge'', 2014 (trans. ''A Paris Affair'', 2015)

Nonfiction

* ''Manderley Forever: A Biography of Daphne du Maurier'', St. Martin's Press, New York, 2017.

References

External links

Author interview at Mother Daughter Book Club.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rosnay, Tatiana de 1961 births Living people People from Neuilly-sur-Seine 20th-century French novelists 21st-century French novelists French people of Russian descent French people of English descent Alumni of the University of East Anglia Elle (magazine) writers English-language writers from France French journalists