Soazig Aaron (born 1949, Rennes) is a French author.

Biography

After studying history, Soazig Aaron worked for a few years in a bookshop in Paris. Today, she lives in Rennes in Brittany.

Soazig Aaron

Her first novel, Le Non de Klara, appeared in 2002. The author, who is not Jewish, recounts in a fictitious diary the fate of Klara, a survivor of Auschwitz who returned in 1945 to Paris, trying to resume a normal life.

Soazig Aaron

For this work, Soazig Aaron received the prix Goncourt du premier roman and the prix Emmanuel Roblès of the city of Blois in 2002. These two prizes reward a first novel. In 2002, it also obtained the Prix du Roman of the city of Carhaix. In 2004, Le Non de Klara was crowned with the Grand Prix des Libraires. In Germany, the novel was awarded the Geschwister-Scholl-Preis.

Soazig Aaron

Her second novel, La Sentinelle tranquille sous la lune, was published by éditions Gallimard in 2010.

Works

2002: Le Non de Klara, éditions Maurice Nadeau, 2010: La Sentinelle tranquille sous la lune, Gallimard

References

External links

Soazig Aaron on Babelio

Soazig AARON, Le non de Klara

Le beau roman de Soazig Aaron on Bibliobs (30 March 2010)

1949 births

Writers from Rennes

21st-century French novelists

Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman recipients

Living people

21st-century French women writers