Timothée de Fombelle

Timothée de Fombelle is a French author and playwright.

He has recently been recognized for his novels Toby Alone and , and both of the sequels. His plays, which include Le Phare, Je danse toujours, and Rose Cats, have been translated into many languages, such as German, Italian and Greek. At the age of seventeen, he founded the theater group La Troupe des Bords de Scène for which he wrote and staged.

At first he was a literature teacher. After teaching in Paris and Vietnam, he became a playwright. He builds his own sets. Many of his plays, such as Je danse toujours, center on loss and fragility, but he sometimes writes comedies, such as Rose Cats. Je danse toujours was read at the opening of the Festival d'Avignon.

The English-language publisher of de Fombelle declined publishing a translation of his 2020 novel , for being a book about trans-Atlantic slavery written by a white European man.

Personal His wife, Laetitia, is an actress and amateur boxer. They have a young daughter named Jeanne Elisha, born in 2004.