Bio
Claire Duvivier was born in 1981. She studied Literature and English at the Sorbonne, then co-founded the publishing house Asphalte in 2010. She spent ten years working with her authors before beginning to write herself. Her first novel A Long Journey was released in 2020 at Forges de Vulcain. It was awarded the Prix Elbakin.net, the Prix Hors Concours and the Prix Libr’à Nous.
Next came Citizens of Tomorrow, the first volume of her “Capital of the North” trilogy. It is part of the Watchtower cycle, co-written with her partner Guillaume Chamanadjian: two intertwined trilogies taking place in a shared universe. Both commercially and critically acclaimed, the 6-book project won a dozen of awards including a Prix Imaginales and a Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, the most important distinctions in French SFFF. It is currently being translated into Italian.
In 2024, Claire Duvivier published her first science fiction novel, Entering the World, at L’École des Loisirs. It is also her first children’s novel.
Foreign rights
For A Long Journey (full translation in English available) and the whole Watchtower cycle, please inquire to BooksAgent.
For Entering the World, please inquire to L’école des loisirs Foreign Rights.