Claire Castillon

Claire Castillon, born May 25, 1975, in Boulogne-Billancourt (France), is a French writer.

She writes novels, short stories and children's books.

In 2000, she publishes her first novel, Le Grenier, edited by Anne Carrière, which does not go unnoticed.

When asked about the genuine violence of her style, she answers: ''This is crude and painful, not crude and gratuitous.

This is not about talking bodies just for the sake of it.

This is sort of outburst in pain''.

In the mid-2000s, she works with the movie director Marion Vernoux on an adaptation of her novel Je prends Racine, adaptation which is not produced.

Her play La poupée qui tousse is performed at the Théâtre de l'Opprimé in Paris, in 2003.

In 2004, she receives the Grand Prix Thyde Monnier from the SGDL for her novel Vous parler d'elle (Fayard 2004).

Her collection of short stories Insecte(Fayard 2006) is translated into 25 languages.

My mother never dies is the translation made by Harcourt in the US.

Her collection of short stories Les Bulles (Fayard, 2010) is brought to light by the same Marion Vernoux and performed at the Marigny theater in Paris in 2013.

In 2015, her novel Eux (l'Olivier, 2014) receives Marie-Claire feminine novel award.

She animates writing workshops within the FIT association (a woman - a roof), and writes a testimony dedicated to the women she met through the association, bringing to light their daily suffering.

She regularly writes chronicles of a young mother in the magazine Parents ,.

In 2016, the movie director Elsa Blayau adapts it into a short film.

Her collection of short stories Rebelles, un peu, receives in May 2018 the Prix L'Échappée littéraire, which jury is composed of high school students from the French region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté ,.