Romain Puértolas

Romain Puértolas (born 1975) is a French author. He is most noted for the bestselling French novel The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe, which has been translated into English and has become an international bestseller sold in 36 nations. This novel sold over 100,000 copies in France by August 2014 and topped French bestseller lists. He is the only child of a Spanish Army colonel (his father) and a French army administrator (his mother). He was an airport controller in Madrid, Spain. and others.

In 2010, Puértolas married Patricia Sierra Gutierrez, a Spanish pediatrician from Andalusia. They have two children. and published in English (translated by Sam Taylor) on August 5, 2014, by Harvill Secker (hardcover, ) and by Random House Canada (paperback, ) . The tone of this novel is comedic and humorous.

Puertolas wrote this novel during a period of approximately one month during 2013.

The film rights for this novel have been purchased, The movie is directed by Ken Scott and was released on May 30, 2018.

The Little Girl Who Swallowed A Cloud As Big As The Eiffel Tower was Puertolas' second novel, entitled La petite fille qui avait avalé un nuage grand comme la tour Eiffel (The Little Girl Who Swallowed A Cloud As Big As The Eiffel Tower). Puertolas states that his second novel (The Little Girl) was written in two and a half weeks. Claude Tarrene, an executive at Le Dilletante, stated that his company has sold foreign rights to this second novel in a dozen countries.

Future works Puertolas states that he writes novels during a relatively short time frame and that he is currently working on "five" new novels. One of the novels he is presently working on will be set partially in New York City.