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Marie Pavlenko is a French novelist and poet, born in Lille in 1974 and partly raised in the Ossau valley in the Pyrenees. She took a master's degree in French literature at the Sorbonne-Nouvelle, spent a year in Jordan and worked as a journalist before writing full time. She writes for children, teenagers and adults alike: the Livre de Saskia trilogy, the Marjane duology, the Charamba cat-hotel series — published in English by Chicken House as Hotel for Cats — and novels in which the natural world is a main character, among them Et le désert disparaîtra, which won the SGDL grand prize for young-adult fiction in 2020. Her books have been translated into a dozen languages.
Marie Pavlenko is a French novelist and poet, born in Lille in 1974 and partly raised in the Ossau valley in the Pyrenees. She took a master's degree in French literature at the Sorbonne-Nouvelle, spent a year in Jordan and worked as a journalist before writing full time. She writes for children, teenagers and adults alike: the Livre de Saskia trilogy, the Marjane duology, the Charamba cat-hotel series — published in English by Chicken House as Hotel for Cats — and novels in which the natural world is a main character, among them Et le désert disparaîtra, which won the SGDL grand prize for young-adult fiction in 2020. Her books have been translated into a dozen languages.