Line Papin (born 30 December 1995) is a

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Biography

Early life

Line Papin was born in

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on 30 December 1995, to a French father who was a historian and a Vietnamese mother who was a translator. She grew up in

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, and at the age of 10, she moved to France where she changed schools five times. Affected by this uprooting, she suffered from

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. After undertaking a

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course at the Lycée Fénelon in

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, she sat an exam for the

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. She then continued her studies in cinema and history of art at the Sorbonne, before passing the exam for entry to the film school

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. At 16 years of age, she showed her work to professionals for the first time: the publishing house of Christian Bourgois. She was given good advice and set about doing more work, and at the age of 20, presented a more accomplished text to the Stock publishing house.

Literature

Her first novel, ''L'Éveil'', was published in August 2016 by Stock. It is the story of four young expats whose voices and lives cross paths. The book received a warm reception from the press, as well as several prizes such as the

Prix littéraire de la vocation The prix littéraire de la vocation, established in 1976 by the fondation Marcel-Bleustein-Blanchet pour la vocation, is intended to help a young French-speaking novelist aged 18 to 30 years. List of laureates *1976: ''Les Régions céréalièr ...

. Her second novel, ''Toni'', was published in January 2018 by Stock, and is a story about siblings. She tells of the search for an individual and a childhood lost in the nights of Berlin. Her third book, ''Les Os des filles'', was published in April 2019. An autobiographical work, it concerns the maternal line of descent and the fragility of existence, over three generations of women, the

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, exile, and illness. Hailed by the press and booksellers, it was nominated for the Readers' Prize of Le Livre de Poche. Her fourth novel, ''Le Cœur en laisse'', was published in March 2021. ''Une Vie possible,'' published in 2022, is a novel and essay about women’s body, women’s rights and motherhood.

Personal life

In 2018, she was in a relationship with singer

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. They married on 25 July 2020 and divorced in 2022.

Literary works

Novels

* ''L'Éveil'',

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, 2016, – Prix de la Vocation * ''Toni'',

, 2018, * ''Les Os des filles'',

, 2019, * ''Le Cœur en laisse'',

, 2021, * ''Une vie possible,''

, 2022,

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Papin, Line 1995 births French novelists Living people