Gaëlle Nohant

Gaëlle Nohant is the author of six books. She is the recipient of the Encre Marine Prize, organized by the French Navy for her novel L’Ancre des rêves, the France Bleu–Page des Libraires Prize and the Livre de Poche Readers’ Prize, both awarded to her novel La Part des flammes, and the Prix des Libraires, awarded to her novel Légende d’un dormeur éveillé. The Bureau of Unknown Fates (Le bureau d’éclaircissements du destin)—forthcoming in the US in December of 2026 with St. Martin’s Press—won the Grand Prix RTL-Lire Prize, has been translated into ten languages, and is currently being adapted for the screen.

Nohant’s fiction straddles the boundary between literary and widely accessible, drawing on extensive research to bring complexity and authenticity to her characters; what interests her, beyond history itself, is the way that history weaves its way through the lives of ordinary and extraordinary people alike. Born in Paris in 1973, she currently resides in Lyon.