Gaëlle Josse

Gaelle Josse (born 1960) is a French poet and novelist. She has written four novels till date. She has won a number of literary prizes and her work has been translated into several languages.

Works

Les heures silencieuses (The Quiet Hours, 2011) Nos vies désaccordées (Our Out of Tune Lives, 2012) - 2013 Prix Alain-Fournier Noces de neige (Snow Wedding, 2013) Le dernier gardien d’Ellis Island (The Last Guardian of Ellis Island) - Grand Livre du Mois Literary Prize, EU Prize for Literature L'Ombre de nos nuits (The shadow of our nights, 2016) De vives voix. Le temps qu'il fait. (With loud voices. The weather that there is., 2016) Un été à quatre mains (A summer for four hands, 2017) Vermeer entre deux songes. (Vermeer between two dreams., 2017) Une longue impatience (A long impatience, 2018) Une femme en contre-jour (A woman against the light, 2019) Ce matin-là (That morning, 2021) La nuit des pères (The night of the fathers, 2022) Et recoudre le soleil (And sew up the sun, 2022) À quoi songent-ils, ceux que le sommeil fuit ? (What are those who loose sleep dreaming about?, 2024) Le fil entre nos cœurs. (The wire between our hearts., 2024) De nos blessures un royaume. (From our wounds a kingdom., 2025)

Formerly a resident of New Caledonia, Josse now lives in Paris.

Decorations Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters (2016)