Florence Noiville

Florence Noiville, a French author and journalist, is a long time staff writer for Le Monde and editor of foreign fiction for Le Monde des Livres, the literary supplement of Le Monde.

After attending Sciences Po, the international business school HEC Paris, and receiving her Masters' in Business Law, Noiville began her professional career in an American corporation, working in the financial sector.

Against all odds, she moved four years later from numbers to letters, leading her career towards what had always interested her: writing and literature.

Since 1994 she has worked as a journalist and literary critic for the French newspaper Le Monde.

She has done numerous interviews and profiles including Saul Bellow, Imre Kertész, John le Carré, Mario Vargas Llosa, Herta Müller.

Her interviews and portraits of writers were published in English in Literary Miniatures (Seagull Books).

From 2007 to 2010, she also hosted a literary show on French television channel LCI entitled "Le Monde des Livres".

Among the authors she invited to her show are: Claude Lanzmann, Joseph Stiglitz, Paul Auster, Umberto Eco ... In 2007-2008, she was a judge for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize organized by The Independent and the British Council in London.

Florence Noiville is also the author of four novels, two biographies and a pamphlet on the excesses of capitalism, called I Went to Business School and I apologize.

Her novels combine literature and neuroscience.

Her books are translated into 13 languages.

Florence Noiville is married to Martin Hirsch.

They live in Paris with their three children.