Odile Weulersse
17 workspublishing since 1984
French children's author, born in 1938 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. A graduate of Sciences Po with an agrégation in philosophy and a doctorate in information science, she taught film at the Sorbonne and wrote for television before turning to historical fiction for young readers: pharaonic Egypt in "Les Pilleurs de sarcophages" (1984), classical Greece in "Le Messager d'Athènes" (1985), the Middle Ages in "Le Chevalier au bouclier vert" (1990). With the illustrator Rébecca Dautremer she wrote the "Nasreddine" picture books, winner of the Prix Chrétien de Troyes in 2006.