Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre

Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre studied at l’École normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud and embarked on a career in investment banking before turning to journalism. She has worked for Madame Figaro and Europe 1, and is currently editor in chief of the magazine Point de Vue. She is an avid reader, and is on the panel of judges for multiple prestigious French literary prizes (including the Prix de la Closerie des Lilas and the Prix Fitzgerald).

Her first novel, Fourrure, which was published to much acclaim by Editions Stock in 2010, won five literary prizes (including the Prix Maison de la presse, the Prix Françoise Sagan, and the Prix Premier Roman de Femme), and was also a finalist for the Prix Goncourt for début fiction.

The Last of Our Kind, her second novel published in 2016 by Editions Grasset, was also widely acclaimed. Point’s Marc Lambron writes: “Here is a kind of novel that rarely comes out of France; that is to say, hardly French at all, rather ‘pulp fiction’, with a real americana spirit and saga-esque feel.” The novel was a finalist for the Renaudot and Interaillé prizes, and was awarded the Grand Prix by l’Académie Française. In 2019, Adélaïde was awarded the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres for her work in journalism and literature. Her third novel, Our Happy Days (Grasset), was publicly and critically acclaimed.

She is currently writing a series.