Cécile Roumiguière

Cécile Roumiguière, born in 1961 in Rodez, is a French children's author. After some ten years working in film and theatre as an assistant director, she turned to writing picture books, young-adult novels and serial fiction. Her best-known title is L'Enfant silence, illustrated by Benjamin Lacombe; L'École du désert won the Prix des Incorruptibles and Pablo de La Courneuve the Janusz Korczak prize. She publishes with Seuil Jeunesse, Thierry Magnier and L'École des loisirs, among others.