Camille Bordas

Camille Bordas (born 1987) is a French and American writer and academic. Her writing has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Tin House, Chicago Magazine, and LitHub. and grew up in Mexico City. Her father was an engineer who moved frequently for work, bringing the family with him. She also lived for a time in Paris and near the French Alps . She is the youngest of four children. She studied anthropology, photography, and art history.

Career Bordas published her first novel, Les treize desserts, in 2009, at the age of 22. It is a coming-of-age story about a young orphan who sets out on a journey in search of her own identity. It won the Prix Jean-Claude-Izzo and the Bourse Thyde-Monnier from the Société des gens de lettres.

Her second novel, Partie commune, was published in 2011, and tells the story of a theater director and his troupe who purchase a home with the hopes of turning it into a theater. It won the Prix du deuxième roman in 2012 She translated the novel into French herself. It was released in France in 2019 under the title Isidore et les autres.

Her second novel in English, The Material, was released in 2024. It tells the story of one day in the life of students and faculty members in a fictional MFA program for stand-up comedy at a Chicago university. Bordas translated the novel into French herself, and it was published in France in 2025 under the title Des inconnus à qui parler.

Bordas was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2024.

In 2026, a collection of her short fiction, One Sun Only, was released.

For several years, she was an assistant professor at the University of Florida. She was the Visiting Blackburn Artist-in-Residence at Duke University for the 2025–26 academic year.

Personal life Bordas is married to writer Adam Levin, who she met at a reception for the Prix du roman Fnac. She moved to the United States in 2012. She is a fan of the football team Olympique de Marseille and the TV show The Sopranos. and is a naturalized United States citizen.

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