Olivia Ruiz
48 workspublishing since 1997
Olivia Ruiz, born Olivia Blanc in Carcassonne on 1 January 1980, is a French singer and novelist. She took her stage name from her paternal grandmother, whose family fled Franco's Spain. Revealed by the first season of Star Academy in 2001, she broke through with the album La Femme chocolat (2005). Her first novel, La commode aux tiroirs de couleurs (JC Lattès, 2020), draws on that family exile; it was followed by Écoute la pluie tomber (2022) and Vamos (2026). Her novels have been translated into Spanish, Italian, German, Turkish and Serbian.
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Olivia Ruiz, born Olivia Blanc in Carcassonne on 1 January 1980, is a French singer and novelist. She took her stage name from her paternal grandmother, whose family fled Franco's Spain. Revealed by the first season of Star Academy in 2001, she broke through with the album La Femme chocolat (2005). Her first novel, La commode aux tiroirs de couleurs (JC Lattès, 2020), draws on that family exile; it was followed by Écoute la pluie tomber (2022) and Vamos (2026). Her novels have been translated into Spanish, Italian, German, Turkish and Serbian.
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48 works · 1997–20202020
- ReleasedDec 3A Day In the LifePaperback
2009
- Lamb of DesirePaperback
2003
1997
- ReleasedMay 6