Gaëlle Nohant

Gaëlle Nohant is the author of L’Ancre des rêves, published in 2007 and winner of the Encre Marine prize, organised by France’s Navy. Her second novel, La Part des flammes, tells the tragic story of the fire at the Bazar de la Charité in 1897 – it was awarded the 2016 Prix du Livre de Poche and the Prix du Livre France Bleu – Page des Librairies. In Légende d’un dormeur éveillé Gaëlle imagines the life of the writer Robert Desnos in Paris during the Roaring Twenties. It won the 2017 Prix des Librairies.

Her latest novel, The Bureau of Unknown Fates, won the 2023 Grand Prix RTL-Lire. This gripping novel is set at the heart of The International Tracing Service – an organisation that was created at the end of the Second World War to investigate Nazi crimes, search for missing people, and discover what became of them.

Currently being translated into 10 languages and adapted to the screen.