Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre

Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre (born 20 March 1976) is a French journalist and author.

Biography Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France on 20 March 1976, a descendant of Princess Isabelle d'Orléans. She won five literary prizes for her first novel and was a finalist for the Goncourt prize for début fiction. Her second novel won the Grand Prix du Roman in 2016.

Clermont-Tonnerre attended the Ecole Normale Supérieure though she didn't complete. She worked in investment banking in France and Mexico. Clermont-Tonnerre then became a columnist and journalist, currently working as the section editor on Point de Vue.

Works Fourrure, Éditions Stock, 2010, Le dernier des nôtres, Éditions Grasset, 2016 Translated by Adriana Hunter as The Last of Our Kind, Hodder & Stoughton, 2018, Les Jours heureux, Éditions Grasset, 2021, Je voulais vivre, Éditions Grasset, 2025,