Gaëlle Obiegly

Born in Chartres in 1971, Gaëlle Obiegly spent her childhood on the plains of Beauce – which she remembers as a time of solitude and boredom – before going to study art and Russian. She now lives and works in Paris. Her first novel, Petite figurine en biscuit qui tourne sur elle-même dans sa boîte à musique, (L’Arpenteur, 2000), the portrait of Gala, a lonely young woman. She has also published le Vingt-et-un Août (2002), and Faune (2005), an astonishingly intimate bestiary. The subect of her novel La Nature (L’Arpenteur, 2007) is particularly topical: ‘A woman has become an object, a maid, a conquest, an actress, a starlet, an employee, an intellectual, a receptionist, a worker, a nun, a Trotskyist, a naturalist, a wife, a resistance fighter, a mother, a widow, a teacher – having been a child. A woman feels stripped of something because she is no longer incomparable. Who has betrayed her? Nature?’ She has also published a text for young people, Le coyote et la fée (Le Baron Perché, 2007). In 2011, she invited readers to return to their childhood, the childhood of fictional art, with Le Musée des valeurs sentimentales (Verticales) and in 2013 with Mon prochain (Verticales) she takes on an exploration of the world, true/false reporting, a private notebook that doubles as a tale of adventure. A lucid and talented young writer, Gaëlle Obiegly stands out with her precise and very personal writing.   
She occasionally works with journals, especially L’Impossible and Chroniques purple.