Silene Edgar

Silène Edgar or George Silène, (born Sophie Ruhaud, ), is a French teacher, writer, and researcher.

Early life and education Sophie Claire Marie Ruhaud-Trouffier was born on in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine. Her parents are Bernard Ruhaud, a writer and Josiane Danièle Salgues.

She obtained her Baccalauréat Littéraire at the Jean-Dautet high school in La Rochelle, then continued her studies in literature in Poitiers. She obtained a master's degree in comparative literature at the Paris Cité University in 2000, and graduated in French as a second language, specializing in Language Awareness in 2011 at Le Mans University and in children's literature in 2015 at the University of Artois.

She is an agrégée in Humanities.

Career and research Teaching She taught French for 13 years, from 2004 to 2017, in a college in Saint-Nazaire.

Since June 2010, she became a freelance editor of educational materials for DYS adaptations (Dyslexia) and began writing fictions for publishing houses such as Casterman, Castelmore, Thierry Magnier, Gulf Stream, Hachette, and Gallimard.

Her breakthrough work is the post-apocalyptic Moana adventure trilogy published by Castelmore (inspired by her year in Tahiti), which won the 2011 CRILJ First Novel Award. Her novel 8,848 mètres, published by Casterman and edited by Vincent Villeminot in 2020, is inspired by the story of her cousin Marion Chaygneaud-Dupuy, who lived in Tibet for 20 years and climbed Mount Everest 3 times.

In 2014, she co-wrote the novel 14-14 with Paul Beorn, published by Castelmore, which parallels the stories of two boys a century apart.

They continue their collaboration with the novel Lune Rousse, Les Loups-garous de Thiercelieux in November 2018, around the universe of the eponymous board game by Philippe des Pallières and Hervé Marly. Then, in 2021, they will work together on the historical fantasy novel La Dame des murs, published by Castelmore.

She also published three historical novels about various themes in French history: Adèle et les noces de la reine Margot (2015), Les Lettres volées (2016) and 42 jours (2017).

In 2019, her novel Pour un sourire de Milad in collaboration with illustrator Annie Carbo addresses the issue of welcoming unaccompanied minors. She diversified her activity towards the youngest and first readings, with On a tué la petite souris illustrated by Noëmie Chevalier

In 2019, she published an auto-fiction, Ce Caillou dans ma chaussure, linked to her teenager novel Pour un sourire de Milad, on the theme of isolated minors.

In an interview in 2022, Silène Edgar announced her upcoming projects.

Other activities She lives near Saint-Émilion.

Silène Edgar also worked with a circle of writers who were friends. In particular, she founded the website Callioprofs with a group of authors from her high school,

She is also known for her research activity, initiated during her master's dissertations and which she resumed for the conference "Fantasy and History" of the fantasy festival Les Imaginales at Épinal, on the theme of Harry Potter and its link to witch hunts, social protest and anti-fascism. She also moderated the festival for several years with Élise Dattin. In 2019, she became educational coordinator and editor of the fantasy pedagogy site of the National Library of France (BnF).

As part of the Tandem de Nevers festival, she participated in a workshop with Maëlig Duval.

Works

Fiction

For youth 2010: 2011: 2013: 2014: 2014: 2015: 2016: 2017: 2018: 2019: 2021: 2021: 2021: 2022:

For adults 2012: 2014: 2014: 2015: 2018: 2019: 2019: 2019: 2021:

Youth album 2020: 2020: 2022:

Articles 2010: 2014: 2018: Prix du jury des Imaginales 2019 2019: