Caroline Laurent

Caroline Laurent (born 1988) is a French novelist, memoirist and editor. Her books include Et soudain, la liberté, co-written with Évelyne Pisier and completed after Pisier's death, and Rivage de la colère (2020), a novel about the expulsion of the Chagossians that was published in English as An Impossible Return (2022). Both novels received multiple literary awards.

Biography Laurent was born in 1988. Her mother's family is from Mauritius. She studied modern literature at the Paris-Sorbonne University. It was a fictionalised account of Pisier's life. Laurent received assistance from Pisier's husband, Olivier Duhamel, to finish the novel. It received the , the Grand Prix des Lycéennes from ELLE, the Grand prix des blogueurs, the Prix du roman métis des lycéens (shared with Kaouther Adimi), the Grand prix du roman métis des lecteurs, and the .

Rivage de la colère was translated into English by Jeffrey Zuckerman and published in English under the title An Impossible Return (2022). A review by Yagnishsing Dawoor in World Literature Today describes Laurent as a "clever, spirited storyteller" who "knows exactly what to reap and thresh from history". He concludes that Laurent's "immensely affecting novel shows us that the pain and the blood, the hope—if held onto with enough might and conviction, through the tears—are everything".

Selected works Et soudain, la liberté ("And suddenly, freedom") (Les Escales, 2017), with Évelyne Pisier Rivage de la colère ("The shores of anger") (Les Escales, 2020); published in English as An Impossible Return (AmazonCrossing, 2022), translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman Ce que nous désirons le plus (Les Escales, 2022)